When You Surrender.... / by Dave Hileman

…150 years later your town, Natchez MS, is full of antebellum homes. This is in contrast to Vicksburg which really is still not “recovered” after the same 150 years. But today’s photo comes from. the Natchez National Historic Park. While the NPS site only has two homes and an old French fort site, the town is full of amazing private homes. Many of them that give tours to offset the cost of these immense houses. We only toured one of those, Rosalie and it was neat with most of the furniture intact from the period before the civil war. We also toured the grounds at Melrose, a NPS unit but they had all buildings closed. Covid is the excuse but it seemed to me they were not trying too hard.

Cadillac Tracks - finally a house that is suitable for a bon vivant of my stature. 12 foot ceilings allow for my Herculean antlers and large gardens for midnight grazing. Any of them would add a bit of pizazz to my branding effort so I picked out three or four for the driver to select from but apparently we are going back to the little pill we drag behind the car. Humans?

The fancy things you loved so much are gone,” they cry.“All your luxuries and splendor are gone forever, never to be yours again.” Revelation 18:14 NLT

The fancy things you loved so much are gone,” they cry.

“All your luxuries and splendor are gone forever, never to be yours again.” Revelation 18:14 NLT