Alan Brown - Ghosts of Mississippis Golden Triangle

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A number of people assisted me with this project. My son-in-law, Kenny Reynolds, and his mother, Gail, provided me with the photographs of the Hollyhocks Gift Shop. Mona Vance, librarian at the Columbus Public Library, was very helpful in my efforts to find historic information about the sites in the book. I am also indebted to the homeowners who graciously shared their ghost stories with me during the Pilgrimage of Homes. Lonnie Cs Halloween broadcast of his investigation of the Gulf Ordnance Munitions Plant was extremely helpful. Beth Nils and Terry Sweeneys contributions to the Gulf Ordnance Munitions Plant chapter are also greatly appreciated. My colleague Elizabeth Threatt and her husband, Patrick Threatt, assisted me with collecting information and photographs relating to Mississippi State University. Another colleague, Mitzi Green, told me about one of Columbuss lesser-known ghost stories: the haunting of the Hollyhocks Gift Shop. My friend Greg Jones gave me invaluable advice regarding the photographs. Bruce Shulze helped me locate the Library of Congress photographs that appear in the Waverly chapter. However, this book would probably never have been published without the persistence of my editor, Candice Lawrence, who never lost faith in the projector in me. Of course, my greatest supporter is my wife, Marilyn, who accompanied me on my travels and assisted me with locating and photographing most of the buildings featured in Ghosts of Mississippis Golden Triangle.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Alan Brown has been a professor of English at the University of West Alabama since 1986. For the past few years, Dr. Browns interest in southern folklore has manifested itself in several collections of southern ghost stories, including The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore (1996); Shadows and Cypress (2000); Haunted Places in the American South (2002); Stories from the Haunted South (2004); Ghost Hunters of the South (2006); Haunted Georgia (2007); Haunted Texas (2008); Ghost Hunters of New England (2008); Haunted Tennessee (2008); Haunted Kentucky (2009); HauntedBirmingham (2009); Haunted Vicksburg (2010); Haunted Natchez (2010); Haunted Meridian, Mississippi (2011); Ghosts along the Mississippi River (2011); The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories (2010); and Ghosts along Floridas Gulf Coast (2015). He has also investigated a number of haunted sites, including the Artists House in Key West, Florida; Miss Mollys Bed and Breakfast in Fort Worth, Texas; Kings Tavern in Natchez, Mississippi; and the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky.

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