{"id":164619,"date":"2026-07-30T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=164619"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:47:09","slug":"mississippi-neighbors-yellow-fever-lost-dog-coffee-hosts-shirley-wimbish-gray-and-wayne-gray-august-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-neighbors-yellow-fever-lost-dog-coffee-hosts-shirley-wimbish-gray-and-wayne-gray-august-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Neighbors &amp; Yellow Fever &#8211; Lost Dog Coffee Hosts Shirley Wimbish Gray and Wayne Gray August 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a yellow fever outbreak in 1898, the residents of <strong>Taylor<\/strong> and <strong>Orwood, Mississippi<\/strong>, played an unexpected role in a story that changed public health in the United States. Hear how the actions of ordinary neighbors during an extraordinary time left a lasting mark on history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019re Invited!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lost Dog Coffee<\/strong> hosts <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shirleywimbishgray.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shirley Wimbish Gray<\/a><\/strong>, retired writing faculty at <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> and her husband, <strong>Wayne Gray<\/strong>, a virologist in the Department of Biology at Ole Miss, to tell this remarkable story about how Mississippians helped solve the cause of yellow fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date: Thursday, August <br>Time: 6 pm<br>Place: Lost Dog Coffee, 4 Town Square in Plein Air, Taylor MS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone is welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a yellow fever outbreak in 1898, the residents of Taylor and Orwood, Mississippi, played an unexpected role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":164625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35027],"tags":[35482,5,7067,676,35483,16025,35481],"class_list":["post-164619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-events","tag-lost-dog-coffee","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-plein-air","tag-shirley-wimbish-gray","tag-wayne-gray","tag-yellow-fever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Mississippi-Neighbors.png?fit=1080%2C1350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164628,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164619\/revisions\/164628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}