Mississippi Gumbo

<p>This book contains a unique collection of amazing true stories from Mississippi also a hilarious play a screwy convention of the Do Nuthin Party World War II adventures wild escapades and miscellaneous other things such as a so-called opera “Tragedy of Peggy O’Neal.”</p><p>You will read about Col. Charles Glen Collins’ encounters with King Edward VII George V Churchill Kitchener Faulkner Caruso and Eugen Sandow world’s strongest man.  Collins was the great grandfather of Bill Laimbeer of basketball fame.</p><p>Another story involves two young black teenagers in reconstruction days in South Mississippi who survived assassination attempts to bravely testify against a white murderer.  The murderer later escaped after his conviction and brought a reign of terror to his community until an unarmed Baptist sheriff faced him down and talked him into surrendering.  After which the sheriff and his feisty whip-wielding wife had to fend off a lynch mob and trick them in a classic ruse to get the murderer back to prison.</p><p>The stories range from violence and terror to nostalgic sweet sadness to hilarious antics.  Every item is a jewel to remember.</p>