Living Local: March 27, 2020

Posted: Mar 27, 2020 / 07:19 PM CDT / Updated: Mar 27, 2020 / 07:19 PM CDT

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Living Local showcases highlights throughout the metro.

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Focused on Mississippi: Sam King’s Snow Photos

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - I have admired Sam King's photographs on Facebook for quite a while. He has a keen eye for extracting the essential out of a scene and preserving it in a picture. Let me give you a few examples before we get to the snow.

Here is the last full moon of 2020; floating just above the tree line with a wisp of clouds as if a curtain was being pulled back to reveal it. Here, the crossroads store. I picked up a great hamburger there one time, and a story I’ll have to tell y’all sometime about a skunk hunt. I never thought to take a photo. And the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn hanging above Church Hill Church from an angle I would have never thought of, nor do I have the equipment to get. But Sam’s Delta snow pictures really caught my attention.

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Living Local: January 15, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Living Local showcases highlights throughout the metro.

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Mississippi Moment: Former Gov. Musgrove on future of state

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - It was just after the bill signing to make the new state flag official that I bumped into Ronnie Musgrove. You may remember that he was the governor in 2001 when the state flag vote first came up. It was defeated then, but perhaps introduced the idea that the flag could be replaced at some point.

The flag has been a sticking point for so long, and now that it has been passed, I asked Ronnie-- "What's next?"

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