Written in the Bricks: A Visual and Historical Tour of Fifteen Mississippi Hometowns

Here are Mississippi tales captured in vivid text and stunning photographs of the sites where it all happened. Written in the Bricks will transport you through three hundred years of Mississippi history, touching down in fifteen fascinating towns. In these pages, you'll feel the crumbling bricks of the state's first university, flee Jackson with the governor as Union troops close in and join prisoners on the roof of the Yazoo County Courthouse as they fight to save the blazing downtown, armed with only garden hoses. Watch in amazement as an army of infuriated matrons storms the New Capitol and hang on tight as the Keesler Bridge makes its first mighty turn into midstream of the Yazoo River. Listen for the cannon heralding the arrival of Brookhaven's first train and the gasps of Meridianites as the lights go on again in the long-vanished Grand Opera House. Find a side of Mississippi history you've never seen before captured in the pages and pictures of Written in the Bricks. The fifteen Mississippi hometowns visited in the volume are Natchez, Vicksburg, Jackson, Columbus, Holly Springs, Oxford, Yazoo City, Carrollton, Greenwood, Brookhaven, Tupelo, Meridian, Pass Christian, Ocean Springs and Hattiesburg.Mary Rose Carter is the author of 'Written in the Bricks: A Visual and Historical Tour of Fifteen Mississippi Hometowns' with ISBN 9781893062092 and ISBN 1893062090.