According to longtime Booneville assistant football coach Riley Presley, “When a male child is born in Booneville he learns 48 Sweep coming down the birth canal.”

Every kid who has ever played football at Booneville High School under “The Legend” is taught 48 sweep before anything else. The play is so ingrained in the fabric of the Booneville community that almost every man, woman and child can diagram it against any basic defense.

Of course, “The Legend” who has made the 48 sweep so famous is Jim Drewry, the most successful coach in the history of Mississippi High School Activities Association. Coach Drewry has won more than 300 games, three state championships and has been inducted into the National High School Sports Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C. Simply stated, Coach Drewry is a “rock star” in the world of high school football.

Enjoy some of Coach Drewry’s exciting moments in his almost 50-year career in photographs in Gridiron Glory. Also, let the Blue Devil teach you how to run the famous 48 Sweep so you will have something to talk about the next time you visit Booneville–home of The Legend and the 48 Sweep.

The Frascognas will be signing Gridiron Glory at Lemuria on Wednesday, November 17th at 5:00.

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welcome to amy sedaris’ wonderful world of crafting.  this book is beyond amazing. there is no way someone else could even attempt to combine this much humor with this much creativity…can’t be done.

i’m not gonna give out any freebie step by steps here because everyone and their mother needs to own a copy of this piece of work but i am going to share a few crafting projects and tips from amy that just bedazzle me.

“Crafting will be an enjoyable and fulfilling activity as long as you take precautions to assure safety, and you accept that you, as well as many of the crafters nearest and dearest to you, are statistically destined to be hurt real bad.”

MOST COMMON CRAFTING ACCIDENTS
1. Sawdust fires
2. Pinecone lodged in throat
3. Decoupage fatigue blackout
4. Dried flower fungal infections
5. Seen sensitivity
6. Hanged from a yarn noose
7. Feather asphyxia

stretching before and after crafting is crucial

MOST POPULAR CRAFTS
1. Tuna Can Lid Baby’s Sleep Chime
2. Mr. Wiggly Worm
3. Macrame Pinch Pots
4. Crab Claw Roach Clip
5. Toiler Paper Roll Pirate
6. Seaweed Lampshade
7. Googly-eyed Clamshells

now let’s start crafting!

by Zita

Bobby Rush showed up unannounced. Yes he did. You should have been there.

One of the main motivations for my two sons, Marty and Mike, and me to start writing about Mississippi high school football came about in 2006 when Mississippi was selected as the top high school football state in the United States.

While some football fans, namely those in Texas, Florida and Ohio were surprised, the awarding of the first-ever Governor’s Cup to the Magnolia State confirmed what many football fans across the nation already suspected and what Mississippians have passionately believed for generations. Our latest book, Gridiron Glory, celebrates over 100 years of Mississippi high school football mania through a special collection of photographs depicting Mississippi’s fascinating culture.

Beginning with a 1905 photography of Chuck Trotter, Winona’s first quarterback, all the way to the 2009 State Championship 6-A Title won by national super power South Panola, Gridiron Glory is packed full of vintage black and white photographs never seen by most Mississippi football enthusiasts together with an array of eye-popping color photographs of Friday night football action across the state.

Anyone who has ever played high school football in Mississippi, or anybody who has shared the Magnolia football experience with a husband, son, brother, nephew, uncle, cousin, father or grandfather has become an inseparable part of Mississippi’s Gridiron Glory.

The Frascognas will be signing Gridiron Glory at Lemuria on Wednesday, November 17th at 5:00.

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When I was a little girl growing up in Laurel, Mississippi, my mother would tell me stories about Leontyne Price, the famous opera singer, born in Laurel, but  then currently residing in the big city of New York.  I was shown the house where Leontyne’s mother had been a housekeeper and was told  how the people who lived in the large  house recognized Leontyne’s exceptional musical abilities and talent. I was told that these people helped send Leontyne to exceptional music schools. I was in awe of her, the beautiful, talented young singer. I was proud to be from Laurel, Mississippi, the same town where Leontyne grew up too.

Flash forward to the mid 1980s when I took my young daughter to a book signing in Jackson when Leontyne’s book  Aida was published. I stood in line with my little eight-year-old, and with my parents who were visiting from Laurel that weekend, and we all watched Leontyne from afar and thought about how she had her beginnings in our home town. It was a moment for reflection and pride once again. Even today, whenever I hear a recording of her voice from time to time, I remember my first impression of her.  She is one of many reasons that I am proud to be a Mississippian.

Click here to see all of “Lemuria Reads Mississippians.”

Mississippians is available now. Purchase a copy online or call the bookstore 601/800.366.7619.

Neil White will be at Lemuria Friday, November 26th.

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-Nan