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Daily Corinthian Vol. 115, No. 241
• Corinth, Mississippi •
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‘Special Brew’ photo wins Over 900
register to vote in cycle
BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
The Best of Show had a “Special Brew” to it. Dr. George Cain claimed the Crossroads Museum Photo Contest’s top award with his photo of a man begging for money outside a church in England. “I’m extremely surprised,” said Cain. “I debated whether to even put it in the contest.” The doctor took home Best of Show in his first entry to the annual contest. “I hadn’t even thought about it (contest) until I bumped into Vicki Avery,” he said. “I decided to take some (photos) down there and see what happens.” Avery’s husband, Bill, is coordinator of the contest and says there was no doubt which photo was the best. “It was an unanimous decision among all judges,” said Avery. “The entries were so good it was a tough job for them ... I was very pleased with what they came up with.” The contest had 170 entries with 1st and 2nd place awarded in the five categories of People, Landscape, Architecture, Pets/ Wildlife and Vacation. “My goal was 200 entries, but I’m happy with the total we had,” said the contest coordinator. Cain took the winning photo in July while on vacation. “I was coming out of a church and he was sitting there by a gate asking people for money,” said the Corinth physician. “We got in a conversation with each other and he let me take his picture after I made a donation to his cause.” The photo — taken at 1/200 of a second, an aperture of 3.5 and an ISO setting of Please see CONTEST | 2A
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Dr. George Cain of Corinth won Best of Show in the Crossroads Museum Photo Contest with this image he calls “Special Brew.”
Memorial honors last ‘true sons’
Participants sought for Heritage Festival
BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
The Crossroads Museum is seeking artists and craftspeople who do things the old fashioned way for the 16th Annual Heritage Festival. Held the fourth weekend in October, the Heritage Festival needs skilled artisans to demonstrate and sell their traditional-style work. “We’re looking for people who want to be a part of a heritage event and do such things as pottery, metal work, sewing, quilting and spinning or who churn butter or make soap, for example,” said Janice Knighton, head of the Crossroad Museum board of trustees. “Since our purpose is to help visitors experience history firsthand and to increase appreciation for traditional skills, we’re especially looking for vendors who can demonstrate as well as sell their craft.” In past years the Heritage Festival has drawn approximately 30 to 40 craftspeople who demonstrate and sell wares from a wide variety of old time arts including canning, weaving and spinning, ceramics, pottery, slab pottery, painting, jelly- and jam-making, beekeeping, soapmaking, basketmaking and storytelling. The Heritage Festival will move from its traditional setting at the Verandah/
A busy election cycle in 2011 has added many first-time voters to the rolls in Alcorn County. Saturday was the last day for new voters to register in time for November’s general election. The circuit clerk’s office opened until noon and didn’t see a flood of activity — there were six new registrations and a couple of address changes — but the numbers have added up over the year. The clerk’s office also had extended hours during the past week, staying open until 7 p.m. “We probably had 40 or 50 during this past week,” said Circuit Clerk Joe Caldwell. He estimated the election season as a whole brought in more than 900 people to register to vote. Some are people who have moved from other areas, but he has found a number of people who have registered this year were already on the voter rolls but apparently never voted before. Absentee voting is in progress for the Nov. 8 election, and it’s moving at a somewhat slow pace thus far. “We’ve got probably about 150 absentees, and out of those, probably 60 or 70 are people that are on the permanent mail-out list,” said Caldwell. All circuit clerk’s offices across the state will open on two Saturdays until noon for absentee voting — Oct. 29 and Nov. 5. Mailed absentee ballots are due by Monday, Nov. 7. The ballot includes county and state offices and ballot initiatives on voter identification, eminent domain and the definition of “person.”
Curlee House to the Crossroads Museum in the old depot in downtown Corinth. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Friday, October 28, and from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 29. The Heritage Festival opens early on Saturday to accommodate a group of approximately 500 fifth-grade students from Alcorn County schools. “We hope that these fifth graders will learn some of these crafts and carry them on for another generation,” said Sonny Boatman, the original organizer of the event. Proceeds from the Heritage Festival will benefit the Crossroads Museum. The festival is both an educational tool and a market for handmade crafts and will feature talks and demonstrations by Sean Marcum, owner and operator of Shiloh-Corinth Battlefield Tours, as well as the music of Corinth’s Lost Cause: A Confederate String Band.
“This festival is going to be far different from any other before it,” said Marcum. “It’ll have the usual stuff — but plenty of new things too. There will be period cooking demonstrations, an Army store setup and it will be free to get into the museum.” Admission to the Heritage Festival is free. There are three options open to crafters and artists who wish to participate: 1) both demonstrating and selling - no fee; 2) demonstrating only - no fee; and 3) selling only - $10 fee, which includes both days. Vendor applications and guidelines are available on the Crossroads Museum’s Heritage Festival page on Facebook. To reserve a spot call the Crossroads Museum at 662-287-3120; or Sonny Boatman at 662-415-2688; or email Janice Knighton at janiceknighton@ comcast.net; or Cathy Wood at cathylwood@gmail.com.
Corinth’s Col. W.P. Rogers Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans held a memorial service for Mississippi’s last two “True Sons” who died earlier this year — Willie Cartwright and James Nelms — two sons of Alcorn County and the Confederacy who were cousins as well. “It was a great event,” said Dr. Larry Mangus, commander of the Col. W.P. Rogers Camp. “We had super weather and a great turnout.” Between 75 and 100 people attended the memorial services, held at Forrest Memorial Park for Cartwright and Holly Baptist Church Cemetery for Nelms. Cartwright, who passed away on May 7 at the age of 94, was the son of Private John Harvey Cartwright of the 1st Mississippi Infantry. Private John Harvey was wounded twice in battles in Virginia. Nelms — son of James Joseph Nelms, who was a 16-year-old Confederate soldier-in-training at the war’s end — died a month later on June 7 at the age of 92. Before they passed their membership made the Corinth SCV Camp the sole camp in the nation to claim two True Sons as members. The memorial services featured the music of Mike Byrd and Keith Letson of Confederate string band Lost Cause. The duo performed a rendition of “Dixie.” “It was an honor for us to play music at a memorial for someone who actually had a conversation with somebody who fought in the Civil War,” said Byrd. “We love that stuff.” The services featured a salute by reenactors and speeches from guest SCV digPlease see SONS | 3A
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On this day in history 150 years ago Confederate forces attack a Federal camp on Santa Rosa Island near Fort Pickens in Pensacola Bay, Fla. Among the Southerners is the Corinth Rifles, a company of Tishomingo County men. By Tom Parsons, National Park Service Ranger