The Other Mississippi

Especially the 1920's and 1930's

by Bob Carney

Large Type - Easy to Read.

Eugene Walter, internationally known author and artist: Carney leads us through a kind of album of prose snapshots, with humor and a relaxed point of view, contending that not everyone in Mississippi is filled with hate. He describes names and events that are evoked that somehow had been shelved in memory's more misty storage vaults. Listen to his subjects: National Prohibition, Mississippi whiskey, bootleggers, world record airplane endurance flight of the Ole Miss (record still stands), Jimmy Rodgers (the original Country Music Singer). He touches as well on almost forgotten big moments of history, including the Meridian race riot of 1871. He tells us of his first time in a Boy Scout summer camp, his first date, his first sexual experience, a classic time at Ole Miss.

Kat Bergeron of the Sun-Herald of Biloxi-Gulfport: The 200 page self-published paperback is a folksy, not so politically correct, sometimes nostalgic defense of Mississippi. He says its ironic that William Faulkner, Mississippi and America's most celebrated author, tainted Mississippi with his early work exhibiting low-class characters which many at that time assumed to be typical Mississippians.

Don Dodd, author and Auburn University Professor: Bob's books could be called "Boy Scouts, Bootleggers and Bilbo: Making it to Manhood in Mississippi." He is candid and shoots from his perceptions because "that's the way it was back then." He immensely enjoyed growing up in a Southern town in the time between WWI & WW2, and sees no reason to apologize for it! He writes without one semblance of political correctness, because he is speaking to his own kind. No one else should be listening but if they are, "that's the way it was."