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THE COOKBOOK Sisters take on new adventure together

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Sisters Charity Hamilton and Katelyn Sisco opened The Cookbook last summer. Using Ms. Bea’s old favorites, they found a special niche in Brookhaven for their takery.

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or months last year after COVID-19 first hit, sisters Charity Hamilton and Katelyn Sisco spent long days by the pool watching their daughters play and getting to spend long hours enjoying one another’s company. After years of working 9 to 5 jobs, the extended and unexpected time off made them realize how burnt out they were. Their conversations quickly began turning into brainstorming sessions about ways they could earn money on their own.

Their first idea was to figure out how to sew and begin selling their crafted goods, but they learned their skill was not quite up to the dreams in their hand. Then, suddenly, the idea hit them. There was really only one thing that made sense: cooking.

When they were growing up, their mother Donna Fauver ran Ms. Bea’s located on Monticello St. After school and during summer vacation, the girls would work, and that’s where they first got into cooking. The restaurant has been closed several years now, but they thought they might trying bringing back some of the crowd favorites.

“Everyone loves Ms. Bea’s; everyone misses Ms. Bea’s. So, we put it on Facebook,” Sisco said. “We said we’d have some casseroles.”

They started making John Wayne casserole and chicken dumplings in their mother’s guest house and managed for a while through Facebook and preorders. Soon, the women began operating under the name The Cookbook, and their takery was born.

“Each week, we just got bigger and bigger. We had to find somewhere to go,” Hamilton said. “We

Charity Hamilton prepares some broth for one of their special casseroles.

Bottom: Katelyn Sisco pours a cup full of their signature sweet tea slushies

found this place, and it was just the perfect set up. It had the kitchen already, and the feel of walking into your grandma’s house and getting something to eat. If you’re at your grandma’s house, she’s going to feed you.”

It didn’t take too long before they realized pre-orders weren’t enough, and they began expanding to a stocked cooler for people to grab and go. Each day, they stock the cooler with their staples, and then the rest varies day to day.

“We don’t have a set a menu. We do have about four things we keep in the cooler at all times that we cook every day,” Sisco said. “Other than that, we just cook whatever we feel like cooking that day.

A lot of people make special

requests. It keeps you creative. It keeps it fun, and you’re not burnt out on doing the same thing over and over.”

Although they credit some of their success for the nostalgia for Ms. Bea’s old recipes, they also have heard how helpful their services are to busy families.

“People are tired of eating out on the boulevard. They want a home cooked meal, but nobody has time to cook a homecooked meal,” Sisco said. “After working all day, and you have your kids that you have to run to this place or that place.

We’ll even heat it up for them.

They’ll have it hot when they get home. They don’t even have to take the extra 30 minutes to cook it themselves.”

And of course, the business wouldn’t be a success without family.

“Mama works here, too,” Sisco said. “We got her to quit her job.

Even though she thinks she’s just working here, she’s still leading us because we still ask her.”

“She says we can’t survive without her,” Hamilton added.

As the in-house mentor, Fauver helps keep the sisters from panicking when a custom order for 60 comes in or during the holidays.

“Thanksgiving we were ready to shut the doors and go home because we had so many orders, and she’s just ‘This isn’t even a big deal,’” Hamilton recalled.

And of course, they have three special helpers in the form of their

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daughters: Hazel, Anna Michael, and Mamie Kate.

“All of them come here after school, so they get to see us cook,” Sisco said. “They get to see us interact with customers. They’ve learned how to have a job. You have to support yourself. You have to have these skills in life. They think they’re playing up here, but they’re learning.”

As the store has found success, they’ve learned that the customers they attract are always the best and most supportive. As very social people, it’s given them the opportunity to get to know new people in fun and surprising ways.

“That lady I was just talking to, she comes through almost every day,” Hamilton said.

“We know everything about her and her family, and I’ve never seen her before in my life until we started here. We just know these people now.”

Plus, every interaction has just reinforced their love for their hometown.

“We love being in downtown Brookhaven and part of the atmosphere,” Sisco said. “We love this town. We’ve always lived here; this is home.”

Story and photos by Julia V. Miller

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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT Empty nester finds new passion through art Story and photos by Julia V. Miller

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hen the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns swept across the country last year, many people suddenly had an excess of free time on their hands. For some, like Brookhaven local Shannon Clark, it provided the opportunity to pursue a new hobby.

Clark had long wanted to take on a creative endeavor involving butterflies, and she decided to enroll in a pottery class at Copiah-Lincoln Community College.

In Janet Smith’s class, she began using clay and a wheel to create pieces.

“The wheel is really, really hard,” Clark said. “I had a great time doing it, and I learned a lot about clay and how to use clay.”

After the class ended, she continued to play with clay. This time, she switched to air dry clay and began working on the butterflies she’d envisioned.

“The main reason I wanted to do butterflies was I love the butterfly effect, so that is the name of the series,” she said. “I’ve always been intrigued by the

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Butterfly Effect theory, that a butterfly flapping it’s wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas. I’m not sure about the science behind that, but I do love the meaning – that small actions can make a huge difference.”

Each piece comes with a card explaining the theory and encouraging the new owner to “Flap your wings and be the change.”

Her second piece was inspired by the pandemic.

“Love in the Time of Chaos,” a play on the 1985 novel Love in the Time of Cholera, came from Clark’s concern for her daughter-in-law, Ashley Mezzanares Clark.

“She’s an ICU nurse in Athens, Georgia, and this sweet little thing has been taking care of covid patients since day 1, when very little was known about Covid,” she said. “The things she’s had to go through, and the love she’s shown to all these people. She’s been with people when they couldn’t have family with them.

She’s held their hands as they died.”

Shannon Clark paints butterflies for her next round of mixed media pieces in her Butterfly Effect series.

The inspiration for these pieces grew out of a lifetime of believing that small acts make big impacts.

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“Love in the Time of Chaos” represents the acts of pure love seen through the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the card included with these pieces, Clark writes “So many have given so much of themselves and our world has witnessed much.”

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“The Butterfly Effect” is meant to inspire all to do their small part in making the world a better place.

This series’ card reads “Small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system.”

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Her sister-in-law also has worked throughout the pandemic as an ICU nurse, and both of the women have had to show incredible compassion through the uncertainty.

“All of us have been through a lot, but to me the ICU nurses are the ones who are really caring for and loving these people through the horrors of it,” she said.

As she began to create replicas of these two pieces in 2020, she received tremendous support from her friends. Then 2021 rolled around, and she was inspired by her friend Amy Valentine to create a list of 21 things to do in ’21. On New Year’s Day, she wrote one of her goals would be to put her art out “in the universe.”

“Which is kind of crazy because I had no confidence in it at all,” she said.

But with her friends’ encouragement she began reaching out to several store owners and Christopher Robinson at J Allan’s took the bait.

“I just wanted a reason to do it because I like doing it,” she said.

She put pieces out at the furniture and interiors store, and quickly her pieces began selling.

“It has given me a new confidence, a new outlook and a something fresh and new to do,” she said.

“I think the meaning behind my pieces, and the cards explaining the meaning, is what make them special.”

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No two pieces Clark makes are alike. Even when following the same pattern, the beauty comes in each individual component’s unique imperfections. Opposite page, top: Clay butterflies dry in preparation to be painted. Opposite page, bottom: Clark prepares a new delivery of inventory for J Allan’s. Below: “Love in the Time of Chaos” celebrate the way nurses and other hospital personnel have given themselves during the pandemic. Bottom: Clark experiments with color on new butterflies.

it was helping to fill a void in her life that had formed after her two sons left home.

“I was so involved in being a mom,” she said. “I was Mrs. Jeff Clark or Peyton and Daniel’s mom.

And who wouldn’t love to be that? But I kind of lost Shannon. Luckily, I was also able to get involved in our community and our schools and that gave me some autonomy. But once the boys left the nest, what I had considered my job, was over. I was obsolete, forced into early retirement.”

She is quick to add that she wouldn’t change a thing about her time spent caring for and raising her children. But as they needed her less, she found herself struggling with her identity and her purpose in life. She tried many things to try to fill that void, but then COVID-19 hit.

“That stopped me in my tracks. Scared me,” she wrote on a Facebook post in March after she had launched her new endeavor. “Not as much for me but for my loved ones who didn’t have the luxury of staying home doing nothing. They had a purpose.”

This art adventure has indeed led Clark to finding a new purpose. However, it’s also reminded her of an important fact that’s been true all along.

“I wasted all that time searching for a purpose after the boys left,” she continued. “I’ve always had a purpose. My family and friends know that, and they are thankful for me and my purpose, which has always been (and always will be) to take care of others.”

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SINGING THE BLUES Brawley, other locals honored for musical contributions.

Story by Brett Campbell photos from archives

Virgil Brawley was honored for his contribution to the Blues. Local musician Tyler Bridge boasted of his contribution to the community and to the continuation of Blues education until his death in 2018.

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The newest addition to the Mississippi Blues Trail celebrates Brookhaven artists that have contributed to that genre of music.

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early three years after his death, Brookhaven native musician Virgil “Big Juv” Brawley will be remembered with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker to be planted in Railroad Park.

The marker will be unveiled Saturday, May 29, at 5 p.m., across from The Inn on Whitworth, the former location of The Jungle teen center, where Brawley regularly played.

A concert will follow, headed by Brawley’s old band The Juvenators, featuring his son Travis Brawley and Chris Derrick. The concert kicks off the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce Summer Concert Series.

The Brookhaven Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a request in May 2019 from Brookhaven musician Tyler Bridge to allow the marker to be placed near the memorial for POW Danny Entrican.

“This guy was very big in the blues community and a very big part of continuing the Mississippi

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Blues history that we have,” Bridge said. “Having a blues marker is a pretty big deal. You have people from all over the world that will come to see a blues marker.”

More than 100 historical markers have been placed throughout the state for the Blues Trail, to honor significant faces and places in the story of America’s music.

Brawley died at the age of 69 on June 22, 2018. His family is covering the cost of the $11,000 marker, Bridge said.

Other blues musicians will be listed on the marker along with Brawley –– Brookhaven native Blind Jim Brewer and Union Church native Moses “Whispering” Smith are among them. Brewer was born in Brookhaven in 1920 and lived in Chicago from 1940 until his death in 1988. He played guitar and sang gospel and blues and was rarely recorded.

Smith was born in 1932 in Union Church and died in Baton Rouge in 1984. He was known as a singer and harmonica player, who was inducted into the

Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame.

Mississippi Rep. Becky Currie, of Brookhaven, was made aware of the Brawley family’s push to get a marker when Bridge approached her about the effort.

“I personally did not know him, but Tyler got me involved,” Currie said. “I had to push for a few years to get this. It wasn’t easy, but we got it!”

Brawley began playing guitar in Brookhaven garage bands as a teenager in the 1960s, then went on to play Brookstock in his hometown every summer with friends and former classmates.

After serving as an Army sergeant and sniper in Vietnam –– earning numerous medals including two Bronze Stars and an Army Accommodation Medal with Valor –– he returned to Mississippi and earned a degree at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and a bachelor’s in radio, television and film from the University of Southern Mississippi.

In the 1970s he was a sound engineer with touring bands throughout the South. In 1980, he moved to Carmeen, Texas, where he owned a small ranch and trained horses. He returned to Mississippi in 1996, where he became well known as an outstanding blues guitarist, soloist and lyricist. His band, the Juvenators, received outstanding reviews for their harddriving Texas, Chicago, West Coast and Delta blues sound.

In 2000, he and his wife, Anne, moved to Mt. View, Arkansas, where he played at the Ozark Folk Center with his acoustic band, Flat Broke, and performed Hill Country blues throughout the Ozarks with the Syllamo Trio. He recorded three albums with the Juvenators, one solo record, two compilation albums, and one album with the Syllamo Trio.

Brawley was one of the driving forces behind the annual Brookstock Festival. The festival returns to Brookhaven July 24.

“When I’m 80 years old, some BBC documentary group will call me because I once played with Virgil Brawley,” Bridge predicted.

“It’s pretty cool that we’re getting to put this marker up.”

Other artists to be included on the marker are Robert “The Duke” Tillman, H.C. Travillion, Charlie McClelland, Eugene Smiley, Al Perkins, Walter “Walt Geezzy” Graham and Oren “Mr. Redboy” Witherspoon.

Walt Geezzy, a 37-year-old soul singer from

Brookhaven native Virgil Brawley, the primary honoree of the marker, got his start playing in garage bands as a teenager in the 1960s.

Brookhaven, is excited to have been chosen for inclusion on the marker.

“I’ve been doing music a long time, and was nominated last year for two Jackson Music Awards,” Geezzy said. “This is a great honor to be placed on a marker where people come from all around the world to see. God is good and I’m very thankful.”

Witherspoon, formerly Geezzy’s manager, said he got his start like many other soul and blues singers — in gospel music, singing with his grandmother’s Brookhaven group, the Gospel Inspirers.

“I’m glad to be honored with something like this here,” Witherspoon said, noting the support of his wife has done much to help him as he records and performs.

Two of Brawley’s bands will be included on the marker, as well — The Brutes, made up of Brawley, Don Jacobs, Gary Clements, Dickey Cook and Iddo Davis; and The Juvenators, which included Byrd Lowell, Guy “Animal” Wade, “Famous” George Vance and Brawley.

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KAO’S ALPHABET Bond forged through power of music Story and photos by Julia V. Miller

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ne day in April, Kris Coleman sat down in his home recording studio. He put on his headphones and began listening to the beat he was planning to use to record one of his original songs.

Just as he was about to get started, his two-year-old son walked over, climbed into his lap, and grabbed for the headphones. Once Coleman situated the headphones onto Kao’s ears, his son began reaching for the microphone. Coleman went along with it and prompted Kao to say “yea.”

“Then he just starts saying stuff on his own,” Coleman said. “I was like well instead of me doing this song, how about I do a song with my son. I had to make it educational, so that’s what I did: the alphabet.”

“Kao’s Alphabet,” which released on Spotify, YouTube, and other streaming services on April 19, is a father-son collaboration that works to capture Kao’s life in this moment.

“Every letter in the alphabet pertains to him,” he said. “I really chose the words based off his personality, things he likes, and things from his life. Things like A is for Applesauce, and, you know, he loves applesauce.

K is for Kao James, his name. P is for Puppy Dog Pals. I based it around things he loves. He’s 2, so he can’t really choose what to put into it. You have to really know your child in order to do that.

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Coleman, who publishes music under the pseudonym Kris Jamez, edited around the words Kao said that day on the microphone to create the song.

“I just let him do it naturally. He said a good bit of things, and I edited them and put them in the place they need to be. Then I put my part on it. When I distributed it, he’s actually down as a songwriter. He’s going to get his percentage.”

This particular song has been a fun and interesting exercise for Coleman. On one hand, he was thrilled with the opportunity to share the gift of music with Kao, but he wants to make sure he’s never forcing the music on Kao. “We have our passions, and we have that feeling what if my child had my same passion,” Coleman said.

“We want them to, but we don’t want to make them.

I’m not making him; he’s choosing to. Every time I’m recording, he wants to be here, he wants to participate.

He’s getting to the point where he’s grabbing those headphones, and he’s wanting to get on the mic now. It really means a lot to me.”

Though their first song together is a major milestone, Kao has shown interest in music “since he came out of the womb. I used to listen to music all the time when [Orionna] was pregnant with him. When he came out, sometimes he would cry, I mean crocodile tears, and we

would play certain songs, and he would calm down.

When he first started to walk, he started walking and dancing at the same time. Now, every time I’m in here listening to music he’s going to dance.

Music is very organic to him.”

Like Kao, Coleman’s love of music also started young. At only four, he remembers sitting in front of his grandfather and listening for hours to him playing the guitar. By age 13, Coleman knew he wanted to take that passion and turn it into a career. Unfortunately, his journey has seen a few bumps along the way. He’s dealt with bad managers, losing money during shows, traveling miles only to not perform. But seeing his son sharing his passion, Coleman sees purpose in those setbacks.

“I know me going through the hard journey is going to help my son because I’m going to be able to prevent a lot of roadblocks for him because I took the lumps for him,” he said.

The other challenge in his journey has been balancing his music and his family. Whether it’s sharing his recording space or splitting his time, he’s had to learn how to best adapt to giving attention to his music, to his two children, Kao and newborn Harmony, and his wife, Orionna Coleman. While there are practical steps he’s been able to work toward, like putting a shed in the backyard to one day soon move his studio out of the house, there was one important step mentally and spiritually he took that made the balancing act immediately easier.

“I recently just made a promise to God that I won’t put music before my family,” he said. “I have to remember that I’m dad. [Kao]’s probably not ever going to see me as Kris Jamez. He’s just going to see me as Dad. I have to remember to just be dad, just be husband.”

Part of that balancing act has included changing the message in his music. When he found out he was having a son, he knew it would be up to him to show his son what a real man is.

“He’s going to mimic me,” he said. “So if my music doesn’t reflect my life, then I’m sending the wrong message to my fans and to my family. To my son, I’m telling him it’s OK to degrade women, it’s OK to talk about drugs and stuff like that as long as you get paid for it. That’s not the message I want to send.”

Since his music has evolved, he has lost some of his early fans, but the fans he’s gained have

Orionna, Kao, and Kris Coleman model shirts from Kris’s Endure All Trials line. Bottom: Kao Coleman reviews some beats for his dad, Kris Coleman.

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been worth it. While he already knew he had started appealing to a more mature audience, he also has found that he’s gained fans among an unexpected group.

“I was at my nieces’ and nephews’, and they were naming songs [of mine] that they liked,” he said.

“I didn’t even know they listen to my music, and they were naming them and playing them on their phones.”

It reinforced that importance of making sure the music he was creating didn’t fall into the negative stereotypes some rappers rely on. Instead, he prefers to talk about real life and issues going on in the world that we need to address. He also recognizes he has the opportunity through his music to be a good example of a father to his fans as well as his children.

“It’s a job that people need to take more seriously,” Coleman said. “The word dad is becoming almost an imaginary figure. It’s like dads are almost

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disappearing. No, it’s fun to be a dad. It’s fun to be a father because I get to see myself grow up again. Kao acts just like me. He acts like me, he moves like me, his reaction to things is just like me. He looks like me.

I’m literally watching myself grow up again. People need to take that dad title more seriously.”

But most importantly, Coleman hopes his music sends the message that you should always be true to yourself.

“I hope my music gives all my fans a sense of truth,” he explained. “I hope it helps them be themselves. I have a song called ‘Be you and be weird.’

Everybody’s weird. What you think is normal might be weird to somebody else. I want my music to tell everybody ‘Be who you are.’ You don’t have to wear a mask to be accepted, and there are people who will like you.”

That lesson is something he’s had to learn throughout the years. Growing up, he was the band

nerd and the athlete. He grew up in the projects, and he also lived in the country. He’s learned to sit in a lot of different rooms and have a conversation.

“When you’re in that room, and you’re younger, you have to mentally turn that knob on. I’m around band people, so I have to be the nerd. Now, I’m going to be me in every single room. I can have a conversation with all of you, but I’m not going to change who I am just to make you feel comfortable.”

It’s that message he tries to reinforce throughout his music. Being yourself is more important than fitting in. Part of that recently has meant talking about his family in his music and getting their input in the song writing process. He always asks his wife, Orionna Coleman, for her opinion. He takes it seriously if Kao doesn’t dance along. He makes sure that his family is proud of his music.

As Coleman looks to the future, he knows there will be plenty of opportunities for he and his son to collaborate again. However, he also finds it important to make sure his son gets the opportunity to be a kid.

“I don’t want it to be his priority,” he said.

“If he wants to continue to do music as he gets older that’s cool, but I’m still going to remind him you’re a child.”

As for Kao, you’ll be able to find him dancing to his favorite artists, ranging from his father to Bruno Mars. His mom said already at 2, he’s not afraid of showing off his moves to anyone.

“He’s going to get into character and show what he’s going to do,” Orionna Coleman said, which sounds like he’s already embracing his father’s message in addition to his talent.

But to Orionna, the part about the song she loves the most is the father-son bond it reflects.

“I love how they’ve created a bond in many ways, but especially through music because that’s Kris’s passion,” she said. “To see how Kao gravitated to it has been amazing.”

Kris and Kao Coleman show off some dance moves in their yard.

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