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10 EDITOR’S NOTE

14 CONTRIBUTORS

16 MAILBOX

19 A BIT MAGNOLIA

221 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

30 CAN’T MISS

32 HOT IN MISSISSIPPI

fashion & finds

travel & adventure

in every issue

homes & gardens

46 GARDENS
Sweet Smell of Summer

50 EASY DOES IT: PROJECT
Fun and Fancy Milkshakes

food & entertaining

62 PATTY’S PICK & PATTY LOVES

64 EASY DOES IT: DINNER

TONIGHT

Crawfish Fettuccine

66 FOOD

Get Crabby

72 EASY DOES IT: ENTERTAINING

Blue and White Garden Luncheon

78 SOUTHERN SOIRÉES

Child’s Play

92 BACK ROAD BISTROS

Sonny’s Smokehouse

94 MS ADVENTURES

Pounding the Gravel

97 TOWN SPOTLIGHT

Waynesboro

104 NOTEWORTHY

High Cotton Happening

heritage & culture

187 CULTURE CENTER

Main Mission

190 LOOKING BACK

“The Know Mississippi Better Train”

192 MISSISSIPPI MATTERS OF FACT

194 MADE IN MISSISSIPPI

Spartan Mosquito

196 HOMEPAGES

224 ON BEING SOUTHERN

The Truth about the Thistle Wars

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