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Home, Garden and Lifestyle around Mississippi
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Calendar of Events
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MClub Memories The Local Dawgs Club
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Made in Mississippi: The Serendipity Hippie
Five Men. Two Centuries of Dedication to MSU
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Taste & Toast
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A Birmingham Bulldog Plates Recipe for Success
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Maroon Memories
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Events
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Summer Events Starkville Community Market Shop local vendors at Fire Station Park Every Tuesday from 4-6pm Every Saturday from 7:30-10:30am
UnWine Downtown Participating boutiques and shops serve wine and appetizer pairings while you shop and socialize! July 26 in Downtown Starkville 5:30pm
Sunday Funday Join the fun at the Parthenon on University Drive. Music, Arts, children’s activities and more!
Downtown at Sundown Starkville’s Summer Concert Series on the third Thursday of each month! Admission is free, food and drink vendors will be on site. June 21st on Main Street 7-9pm July 19th in the Cotton District 7-9pm August 16th outside at Rick’s Cafe 7-9pm 8 | TOWNANDGOWNMAGAZINE.COM
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Starkville Public Library Summer Movie Night: Shreck. July 19th, 2:30 pm Captain Underpants Lego Day: Last Thursday of every month. Bring your kids to play! 3-5pm
Sounds of Summer Come enjoy live music at The Columbus Riverwalk! Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Concessions will be for sale. Stormy Monday. July12, 7-9pm The Bouncing Betty. July 26, 7-9pm
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MClub Memories
The Local Dawgs Club
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s the sun begins to rise, coffee is poured, plates are filled and the memories are recalled.
The Cake Box Eatery in Starkville, is host to one of Mississippi State University’s most valuable time capsules, as student athletes of the maroon and white past time join together in comradere. The Local Dawgs Club is a fellowship group for all MSU letterman in all sports, who live in the Starkville area who played or coached at MSU in the 1950's. The list ranges from players, coaches, managers, trainers, team doctors, bus drivers and cheerleaders, and those who are listed in the M Club Alumni Association at Mississippi State. Red Collins, running back for Mississippi State drives down from Memphis each opportunity he gets,just to share laughs, smiles and the occasional jab of subtle insults to his fellow friends and teammates. He said when you look around the room, there are people who are in their 80’s, making this time together more and more precious with each meeting. "I come down here because there's not many of us left," Collins said. The minute each member is comfortably seated with the coffee steam dancing above the cup, it’s as if the resume button is pressed. Conversations are picked up right where they were left off.
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When asked what this meeting means to Collins, his face immediately illuminated with a bright and wide smile "Gah, these are the greatest guys in the world," Collins said. "Look at how many people you've got down here, everybody's got a piece of something that was all something at one time or another." The first official meeting was held at the Starkville Cafe on January 23,1998. Since then, the group has met on the third Friday of each month. The organizing group was composed of L. M. Molly Halbert, J. E. Logan, Jimmy Dodd, JackVaughan, Bailey Howell, John Carrero, Leonard McCullough, Billy Stacy and Charles Weatherly, all of Starkville. Weatherly said whether it’s two people or 25 people, there he is always excited to see the same old, but familiar faces. The usual amount of people who show up to the breakfast is around 25 people. Weatherly said the club was organized to talk about “old times and fellowship.” The club serves the same purpose with the added discussion of scholarship donations, university events and other announcements. “It's one of the things that we all look forward to each month," Weatherly said. "It reminds us of the greatest time of our lives, which happened right out there on that campus at Mississippi State." As Weatherly watches the current student athletes bask in the spotlight, he said it takes him back to what it used to be like for him and his friends. He said the perfect example was when the rally banana came to fruition. "That's the part that we can reflect back on because we did the same thing when we were students,” Weatherly said. ”It's just a great reminder of what that place means to all of us.” MSU Baseball player Bob Craig said he comes to the meetings because due to the reality of their age, there is not much time left with each other. "At our age, you start realizing 'hey this may be our last meeting,'" Craig said. “It's just so much fun to reminisce and find out what's going on with families.” With each photo, each newspaper clipping and old equipment, comes a new story. The details trickle in, but are occasionally lost in thought when another member interjects, completing the story. Looking around at the table, surrounded by his friends, teammates and family, Craig provided some advice to the current student athletes experiencing life under the lights. "These people, you'll be friends and you'll love them for the rest of your life," Craig said. “Winning is great, but the relationships are what last forever."
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Made in Mississippi
Article by Mary Rumore • Photos by Hunter Hart
The Serendipity Hippie
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aisley Hamilton, the owner of The Serendipity Hippie, has combined her love of nature, the 1960's and 1970's and women's fashion into a oneof-a-kind clothing line. Hamilton began The Serendipity Hippie in 2011 by selling her handmade jewelry at pop-up shops, festivals and online. Her business grew, and she opened her studio full of own designs in October 2017 on Dr. MLK Drive in Starkville. Hamilton is a native of Starkville and a graduate of Starkville High School. She then attended Mississsippi State University and graduated in 2015 with a degree in fashion design and merchandising with an emphasis on design and a minor in business. July 2018 | 17
Hamilton said she named many of her designs after the music of the 1960's and the 1970's, including the Magic Carpet Belle Bottoms, After Midnight Maxi Dress, Mythology Dusters and Maxi Skirts and Romance Maxi Skirt. "A lot of my designs are inspired by the 60's and 70's," she said. "There are a lot of bell and a lot of flow. Everything has to be effortless and comfortable to wear." The Serendipity Hippie's clothing is made from organic hemp and cotton, Hamilton said, because it wears well, it's sustainable and it's not treated with pesticides. "You can truly feel the difference when you wear it," she said. Along with designing her clothing herself, Hamilton also creates the dyes and dyes the clothing too. Her dye colors, such as Wild Fox Medicine, Poseidon, Heart of Gold, The River, Rose Dust and New Moon, are all inspired by tones found in nature. "I'm also very inspired by India," she said. "All the bohemian colors and patterns of India, I try to bring that into my designs as well." Hamilton uses floral-patterned trim imported from India on her repurposed vintage flannel shirts. "I really enjoy working with the silk Indian sari material," Hamilton said. "I import it straight from India, and I just love the color and patterns, and I use it on a lot of the vintage flannel stuff." Along with her repurposed flannel shirts, Hamilton also uses vintage leather to create one-of-a-kind purses, as well as cut-off shorts made from vintage Levi's blue jeans. "The vintage Levi's have been really popular this summer since it's sweltering," she said. "I do all the 18 | TOWNANDGOWNMAGAZINE.COM
vintage sourcing myself and the distressing. I process all those myself, and they go through quite a journey. Where I find some of those blue jeans they are on their last leg, but they get a new life and people come in and absolutely love them." Hamilton said she loves seeing something old turned new and given a new life. "These are things that otherwise would've been discarded," she said. "They're completely given a rebirth and a new life, and it's really awesome to see someone come in and absolutely adore something that otherwise would've been discarded." In addition to clothing, Hamilton makes belts from leather sourced form Mississippi along with her own line of hand-made jewelry made of natural leathers, mixed metals, freshwater pearls and natural stones. "All of the rolled leather jewelry and pearls I make myself, and I make a lot of rosary-style jewelry as well," Hamilton said. "I also have several silver smiths from different parts of the country that I bring in silver from." Hamilton is already looking toward the fall, which will bring new maxi dresses, Solstice Slacks and reusable wax wrappers as a environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic baggies, which are already available. "It's been a lot of hard work, but I'm enjoying it so much," Hamilton said.
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Five Men • Two Centuries of Dedication to MSU
Article by Charlie Benton
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etween the five of them, there’s more than two centuries of student affairs experience at Mississippi State University. In addition to the sheer amount of time they’ve put into student affairs at MSU, the Group of Roy Ruby, Jimmy Abraham, Bill Foster, Gaddis Hunt, Mike White and Edie Keith have been part of several changes driving the university forward. After working together at the university, some since the 1960s, the men meet for coffee periodically at Cadence Bank in Starkville, where Abraham currently serves as vice chairman of client and business relations. The group has been meeting for coffee since 2015. “Certainly, retirement is a time that gives you opportunity to do those things,” said Keith, who served in many positions on campus, including a stint as associate dean of students. “A lot of these guys were my friends that I saw every day for nearly 25 years, so we talked about it, touched base, and said ‘let’s get together a time or two,’ then we decided we wanted to do it on a regular basis.” Keith said he first came to know many of the others in the group as employees of the university while he was a student. “All of these guys, except Mike White, who’s three years older than I am were working at State, and I had known them as a student,” Keith said. “I ended up getting my master’s her in counselor education, and worked at the counseling center at State for a year.” Ruby, who served the university for 41 years, including a brief term as interim president, said he enjoyed keeping up with his old work friends in their retirement days. The members also discussed their work in student affairs as the university was growing from a small school focusing on engineering and agriculture, to a large, multi-faceted university. “We had also made a decision that we needed to make our students, not happy, but absolutely (having) something to do,” said Foster, who led the housing office starting in 1960, before moving on to become director of the university’s new union building in 1966. “We realized they were probably good recruiters. I think we all got involved in that, and we worked well together and became friends as a result of that.”
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Changes at the time included bringing more women students into the university, and slowly adding more minority students. “We’d just reached 10,000 students, and that was a monumental victory,” said White, a Vietnam War veteran, who started at MSU in 1972 and served as director of disabled student services. “When we reached 10,000, the difference was women and minorities.” Ruby emphasized the group was merely part of the changes happening at State at the time, not the driving factor. “Mississippi State was an agricultural, engineering school, a boys’ school at the time, and at the same time, we’re talking about (former MSU Vice President John K.) Bettersworth was adding the social sciences and those things, and along with the addition of women, it became a complete university,” Ruby said. “To this day, engineering is still the anchor store in the Mississippi State mall, but everything else has come long so it’s not the only thing.” Ruby also said the natural friendship among the group made working together for the good of the campus easier. “I don’t think we were very territorial,” Abraham said. “We recognized what was good for him was good for me, and what was good for me was good for him. We liked each other, put those two things together, I think it made a great working relationship. We all had things that overlapped. Mike and I did a lot of things together outside of his role and outside of my role.” Some members of the group played a role in the founding of a graduate program in student affairs and higher education, allowing them to also serve as professors. “When you go through it, you’re so busy that you don’t have a chance to reflect on what you’re doing,” Abraham said. “Now that we’re retired, it’s good to look back and kind of think about what to place, and what we accomplished together with so many others helping us. It is very rewarding.” Foster said he was still in contact with many of the students he had taught in the graduate program. The group also discussed the increase in scholarships given through the years. “The numbers are larger,” Hunt said. “What we spend is more. The buildings cost more. It costs more to run. A lot of the things going on right now have to do with the amount of zeroes you ad to the end of it.” All five men were quick to emphasize MSU giving more to them than they ever gave to the university, saying they would never speak ill of their alma mater, and were proud to have been able to come back as employees after graduating. “From a personal standpoint, what I am today, my career is due to Mississippi State,” Foster said. “That’s how I feel about it.” 24 | TOWNANDGOWNMAGAZINE.COM
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Taste & Toast
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Trout Salad BLT Tacos 3 lbs Carolina Sunburst Trout (minced) 1/2 cup yellow onions 1/4 cup celery (minced) 1/2 cup house pickles (minced) 2 boiled eggs, (diced) 1/4 cups mayonaise 1 tbsp whole grain mustard 2 lemons (juiced) 2 tsp kosher salt 1 tsp black pepper 1 tsp dill weed
Cook the trout thoroughly. Remove the skin carefully and set aside. Pick the meat, being careful to omit any bones. Combine all remaining ingredients in mixing bowl and chill, preferably over night, before serving. Note* our house pickles are sweeter than kosher dill but not as sweet as bread and butter. Any pickles will work fine, but that is the flavor profile that will best march this recipe.
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The Westburg Effect 1.5 oz Four Roses Yellow Label Bourbon .5 oz Giffard Banane du bresil .25 oz Praline Pecan Liqueur .5 oz pure maple syrup Combine all ingredients in a rocks glass with ice and stir.
As I was perusing the Starkville Farmers Market for refreshing summer cocktail ideas, there was no shortage of inspiration from our incredible local farmers. Red, ripe strawberries from Bountiful Harvest Farm, plump blackberries and blueberries from Cannon-Yarbrough Farm and the welcomed reappearance of those big, yellow, amazingly juicy peaches from Prospect Farm had given me much to ponder. Returning home from the market with visions of blackberry bourbon smashes and peach rum drinks dancing in my head, I had a bit of epiphany. There is only one fruit during this summer of 2018 that has truly captured the hearts and minds of Bulldog Nation: The banana – the rally banana to be exact. To that end, local Guest Room bartender Kris Harbin created “The Westberg Effect,” a surefire way to beat Mississippi’s summer heat. Best enjoyed while cheering on Bulldogs Baseball. Cheers! -Brian Kelley
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Article by Faith Lifer
A Birmingham Bulldog “Plates” a Recipe for Success
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hen Katie Strickland graduated from Mississippi State University in the summer of 2013, she was engaged to be married in January 2014. In fact, January would change the course of Katie Strickland’s life, though she never made it down the aisle. A week before the wedding, Strickland and her fiancée called off their engagement. In the following days, the course of Strickland’s life would change, but not in the way anyone might have predicted. “It was God’s way of saying, ‘Katie, I have a different path for you,’” Strickland reflects. Where someone else might take a step back, Strickland chose to take a leap forward. She thought, “Okay this is it. This is my chance.” No longer planning for a wedding, Strickland began planning to start her dream business: her own food delivery service, Katie’s Plates, serving families who want to stay healthy, but who don’t have the time. Strickland started with one customer: her mom, Jane Walker Maples. Maples ordered the meal on the website her daughter created, and Strickland then prepared her new business’ first meal in her mom’s condo kitchen. Strickland remembers laughing while eating the meal with her mom, thinking: “That didn’t go how we thought it would.” However, Katie Strickland persisted. She had the optimism and flexibility to handle anything that came her way. “I basically thrive in change and craziness. That’s really what entrepreneurs need — to handle the craziness,” says Strickland. July 2018 | 31
She worked a separate job during the day, then cooked and delivered Katie’s Plates at night. Slowly, her customer base grew, and she was able to move out of her mom’s kitchen. Today, Katie’s Plates is a beloved food delivery service with branches in Birmingham, AL, Nashville, TN, and Jacksonville, FL. Although, Katie’s Plates serves everything, Strickland describes her favorites as “Southern meets Mexican,” Yet Strickland’s journey to Katie’s Plates did not begin in the January of 2014. Her journey begins with her love of food, which began in Birmingham, Alabama when Strickland was nine years old. Strickland was homeschooled for her fourth-grade year, and her mom held a class for Strickland called “the science of food.” Even when the class ended, Strickland continued to concoct recipes, testing them afterwards. In Strickland’s senior year at Oak Mountain High School, she was Auburn bound. Strickland had already been accepted into Auburn University, when her English teacher took Strickland’s class on a field trip to Mississippi State University. Despite Strickland’s premature judgment: “I will never live in Mississippi,” she fell in love with Mississippi State and the building it boasted solely committed to Food and Nutrition. Strickland forewent her plans at Auburn to make new plans as a Bulldog. 32 | TOWNANDGOWNMAGAZINE.COM
(To this day, Strickland remains a Bulldog fan. “I grew up an Auburn fan, but if Auburn is playing Mississippi State, I hands down go for Mississippi State,” says Strickland.) Strickland thought her love of food would lead her into the medical field as a dietitian. After all, Strickland’s dad, Jim Strickland, was a doctor, and her mom was a nurse. It was only when Strickland interned in a Birmingham hospital that she became disenchanted by the idea of working in a hospital as a dietitian. “I thought I could make more of a difference in the community by cooking for people,” Strickland says. Strickland came across the idea for Katie’s Plates when she was a nanny for Amanda LeBlanc in her college years. LeBlanc, herself an entrepreneur, was an inspiration to Strickland. Strickland remembers watching how LeBlanc ran her own business, The Amanda’s, where LeBlanc was a professional organizer. One aspect of Strickland’s job was cooking for LeBlanc’s children, who loved their nanny’s meals. LeBlanc first gave Strickland the idea of starting her own business when she suggested that Strickland prepare meals for several families as a private chef. Instead of being a private chef, though, Strickland preferred the idea of serving anyone who wanted her healthy, yet nutritious, meals. Thus, the idea for Katie’s Plates was born.
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Although food delivery has now become an increasingly popular option for families, when Strickland started Katie’s Plates in 2014, food delivery services were sparse, especially in Birmingham. Still today, Katie’s Plates remains in a category of its own, because the dinners arrive nightly “warm and fresh,” an accomplishment of which Strickland and her staff are proud. Reflecting on Katie’s Plates’ humble beginnings, Strickland says her business is more than she ever hoped it would be. “Right now, my favorite part of Katie’s Plates is seeing all of my hard work come into fruition,” says Strickland. She loves hearing from customers about the ways in which Katie’s Plates has changed their lives. Katie’s Plate’s allows families to spend more time together, eating at home, around a table again without the stress of preparing meals. “Having a business is an unreal type of stress, but it’s an unreal kind of fulfillment too,” Strickland says. Strickland is now married to Ian Reynolds, who serves as the logistics manager for Katie’s Plates. The couple has two dogs, Wrigley and Coco, and two cats, Finn and Louie. What may be next for this MSU alumna? Strickland says she would love to expand Katie’s Plates to Starkville one day. Other possibilities? If Strickland ever sells Katie’s Plates, she would like to open a restaurant that serves Katie’s Plates favorites, or possibly own a horse barn and provide riding lessons. 34 | TOWNANDGOWNMAGAZINE.COM
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Article by Ryan Phillips • Photos provided by MSU
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n one pitch in a ballpark in Omaha, Mississippi State’s baseball team saw its magic run out and the chance at a national title slip away. Despite the loss in the semifinals of the College World Series, the team boosted an already energized fan base that has seen its Bulldog baseball team play in consecutive Super Regionals and back-to-back title game appearances from the women’s basketball team. Ken Hood went to school in the early 1970s and could remember the times before women’s basketball had the allure it currently does, with sold out crowds and regular appearances on ESPN. But to Hood, baseball stood out as one of the best memories. “I’ll never forget when Burt Masters hit that walk off against Florida State,” he said, reminiscing on how it kept the team alive to eventually advance to the College World Series. It was a team that also featured current Mississippi State athletic director John Cohen. The home run came in the finals of the 1990 South Regional when Masters, who broke the SEC career record for hits earlier in the regional against BYU, hit his first career grand slam in the ninth inning against Florida State to give the Bulldogs a 11-8 victory. Hood, a native of West Point and alum of Mississippi State, also reflected on how far the women’s basketball had come, as he recalled a time when only a few people showed up to games. “Those were the dark times,” Hood laughed. He also reminisced on his involvement with the former Foster Parent program set up by legendary MSU baseball coach Ron Polk. The program paired baseball players with university employees willing to welcome them into their homes for the season.
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“We had Jason Burkley who lives here now and is married and has a family,” Hood said, listing off players who had stayed at his home. “Matthew Maniscalco, who was a great shortstop for the Bulldogs. Jonathan Papelbon who played for the Red Sox and the Phillies. There were so many Among that list of others are current big leaguers Mitch Moreland and Hunter Renfroe. “We also had Trevor Fitts, who is on the coaching staff now,” Hood said referring to the former pitcher who currently works in baseball operations at MSU. Hood misses the program since it was discontinued a few years and said Mississippi State and the community offered something unique to its ballplayers. “I think our program seemed like it was a little more family-oriented,” Hood said. “It was really really close together, the team and all the players and families involved in it. It just made it more meaningful. We felt like they were part of us and we were part of them.” Carol Moss Read, who serves as president of the Oktibbeha County chapter of the Mississippi State Alumni Association, had big leaguers ranging from Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro, to Mitch Moreland come through her home.
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She too relished the experienced and enjoyed her time with players, despite the program ending a couple of years ago. “It was just an awesome experience because you really got to know them, not only as baseball players but young men, we have made lifelong friends with not only them but their families. But in looking back on her memories, Read comes from a slightly different place. Holding numerous degrees from the University of Alabama and a doctoral degree from MSU she received in 1976, this transplant Mississippi State fan now proudly bleeds Maroon and White. “My favorite memory was when we beat Alabama 6-3,” she said, reminiscing on her memories of attending ballgames in Jackson in a van with her friends and fellow fans. “Being an Alabama, you knew in the fourth quarter Bear Bryant would just walk on water and they would win,” she said. But being a Mississippi State fan, Read - along with other fans - developed a love for the athletes as people instead of just ballplayers. “I’ve had season tickets for baseball, basketball and football for 40 years,” she said. “But I’ve been going to women’s basketball since before we had to pay. for a ‘Bama grad, I think that’s pretty remarkable.”
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FPCC Water Day Photos by Logan Kirkland • June 8, 2018
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Reception for Abigail Musser, Distinguished Young Woman of Starkville Photos submitted • June 8, 2018
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