{"id":26977,"date":"2015-09-09T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=26977"},"modified":"2015-09-19T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:23:23","slug":"the-great-magnolia-vagabond-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-great-magnolia-vagabond-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Magnolia Vagabond – Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"237magvag-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I passed through Mississippi twice in early 2005, headed west from Baltimore to Los Angeles in February and then again on the way back\u2014Tinseltown to Crabtown\u2014in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"237magvag-2\"<\/a>On the way out, right around Valentine\u2019s Day, I lingered in Oxford giving away copies of a Baltimore art journal called LINK. I also asked around to see if someone could take me to the grave of the recently departed Larry Brown, the author of Dirty Work<\/em>, who had passed a day before Thanksgiving the previous year and was buried on private property.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"237magvag-3\"<\/a>I was told by folks in the know that the Brown family had suffered a tragedy more recent than Larry\u2019s death and it was not a good time. I thanked them, said a rosary bead for Brown, and rolled west.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the way home, I was again in the Magnolia State\u2014making time in a 99 VW Bug with a license plate that said THE WHO, 125,000 miles on the odometer and a couple of pens in the flower vase on the steering column.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the journal of that time, I passed through the town of Moselle in Jones County\u2014population 3,200 on March 28. Nothing else is noted.\u00a0 \"The<\/a><\/span>
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