#iuka Mississippi

[amandaanddonnie]

VLOGMAS Day 13 - Dickens Christmas - Iuka, Mississippi | Our First Ever ...

[whumpyourdamnpears]

“brought you in this world and I can take you from it just the same.”

[daffodil--lament]

Iuka and Mississippi are insane songs especially in tandem obviously [positive] but putting Mississippi and Carry Me back to back in You Don't Own Me Anymore was actually deranged. im furious [also positive]

[kingpinparrot]

“Take me down to iuka Mississippi”

Jayden and Lived are so,,,, girlboss and malewife frfr

(Reblogs are appreciated and support the artist!)

[olafsings]

Music History Today: May 5, 2023

May 5, 1942: Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Iuka, Mississippi.

[antigonemybeloved]

there’s something about singers who write a song that connects to one of their other songs. like here’s a song i wrote years ago that can stand alone as a narrative but i haven’t stopped thinking about the universe that song created. so here’s another song to be its partner in existence. 

[theheadlesscrow]

Ain't no way he heard us Ain't no way he'll come I hear someone breathin' Hold my hand and run... “Iuka,” The Secret Sisters

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

When I was around 10 years old, we took a family vacation to Iuka, Mississippi in the northeasternmost part of the state. Papa was in search of his roots. We went to a tiny cemetery outside of town where his great-great-grandparents were buried next to each other. I think they were the last of our direct line buried there because their daughter married a man named Choate who would die in 1862 fighting as a private in the Mississippi Confederate Infantry. My dad loved the narrative that – with her husband dead – his great-grandmother got on a wagon with her children and headed to greener pastures in Arkansas. One of those children grew up to become a kind of hero to my father, even though he died before Dad was born.

When I was around 16 years old, I used to tell my parents I planned to stay at a friend’s house as a way to skirt a potential curfew. On one of those nights, Nene and Aunt Laura were away at church camp. My father thought he had the house to himself, but I eventually came home. Dad had already gone to bed, but the lights in the den were still on. On the carpeted floor, a yellow legal pad filled with his handwriting lay in front of his cushy blue recliner. My dad was always quick to give me instructions, but he never shared with me his personal doubts or abstract reflections. I was certain the legal pad was full of such elusive content on that night when I unexpectedly entered what my father thought was his private space for the evening. I felt foreign standing there in my own home that night. I knew that scanning the pages qualified as an intrusive act, but I couldn’t help myself. My curiosity about the most important and mysterious man in my life proved too great. And the smell of bourbon lingered in the air, so I knew he wouldn’t wake up any time soon.

I was hardly a literary creature at the time, but I recognized my dad’s handwritten sentences on that yellow pad as the beginnings of an historical novel based on the lives we had searched for when we took that family vacation to Iuka. I’d never seen my father express himself artistically before, but there in that house, thinking he was alone, he had decided to begin working on a novel.

It took me years to work up the courage to tell him I’d seen the pages. Not until after cancer had humbled him considerably. He was embarrassed I had known about the book. He didn’t know how to write a novel, he said, as he sipped at the ginger ale he hoped would settle his stomach’s reaction to the chemotherapy.

When I became a writer myself, I always thought I would get those pages when he died and finish the novel for him, but the notepads perished in a house fire before I ever got to see them again. My father’s only real artistic expression, gone forever.

But on my way home from Huntsville, I was satisfied to see that my great-great-great-grandparents are still here in this tiny cemetery. And in any case, I don’t know how to write a novel either.

Dad.

Paden, Mississippi. 7.23.2021 - 4.38pm.

[scotianostra]

John McArthur was born in Erskine,  on November 17, 1826.

McArthur served time with his father as a blacksmith before emigrating to the US at the age of 23. He settled in Chicago and worked as a boilermaker before  he began the Excelsior Iron Works, which he ran with his brother

By 1861, he was the sole owner of the company, and was active in the state militia's Highland Guard. In May of 1861, he became colonel of the 12th Illinois Infantry and fought in engagements and battles in places including Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. 

Promoted to brigadier general on March 21, 1862; he took part in the Battle of Shiloh, in which he was wounded. As divisional commander, he led troops at Iuka, Corinth and in the Vicksburg Campaign and Siege. He was brevetted a major general for his service in the Battle of Nashville, and was assigned to the Army of the Gulf for the rest of the war.

John McArthur left the military in August f 1865, and returned to his iron business. It did poorly, and his position as Chicago public works commissioner ended after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. John then worked as postmaster of Chicago, but was found culpable for losing $73,000 of postal funds in a bank failure. 

After retiring, McArthur died Chicago, on May 15th, 1906. He must have been a respected man to merit  a bust at Vicksburg National Military Park in  Warren County, Mississippi

[coop-hayes]

Call 66-BIG-DINOS and you'll be directed to the "So You Wanna Talk About Dinosaurs?" Hotline, where you get to hear Aaron Mitchell talk about dinosaurs. I highly recommend it.

Strangely, its area code is for Iuka, Mississippi. I was expecting an area code for Michigan, where the Mitchells live.

[amandaanddonnie]

Honeymoon Air BnB tour - Peaceful with Water Views in Iuka, Mississippi

[whumpyourdamnpears]

bow & arrow: which of your settings would you most like to visit?

I actually have a goal to go visit Iuka, Mississippi (the place where the captivity arc is based on) on a roadtrip someday

(the woods of Iuka)

[daffodil--lament]

if you listen to Iuka and Mississippi by the Secret Sisters back to back you can. well i don't know what it's doing to me precisely

[kingpinparrot]

“Take me down to iuka Mississippi”

Jayden and Lived are so,,,, girlboss and malewife frfr

[olafsings]

Music History Today: May 5, 2023

May 5, 1942: Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Iuka, Mississippi. She became known as the First Lady of Country Music. Wynette had more than 20 Number 1 hits, though she's still most widely remembered for signature songs of the late 1960s and early '70s, such as "I Don't Wanna Play House" and "Stand By Your Man."

"Stand By Your Man" was widely criticized within the feminist movement; in the mid-'90s, it became the subject of discussion again when soon to becoming first lady Hillary Clinton referenced it in a news interview. McDonough says Wynette remained proud of the song. When asked about it, she'd say, "I just thought it was a pretty little love song," McDonough says.

[sealmaiden2000]

when you’re a daughter escaping a father || when you’re a father and your daughter is all you have