"THIS LAND IS OUR LAND" This print presents a montage of southern towns and southern culture. The courthouse was usually found at the center of the town square, and stores around usually included a drug store, a dime store or variety store,one or two doctor's offices, law offices, and a restaurant where each morning eggs, bacon, hot biscuits and,of course grits, were served. My favorite, at breakfast, has always been that salty smoked ham that survives from pre-refrigeration days. Lunchtime consists of a meat, three fresh vegetables, biscuits and ice tea. On the outskirts of downtown were the school and the churches.The train tracks and the depot were where one caught the train going to Memphis or New Orleans. Also on that train was the cotton, vegetables and livestock that our farms produced. In Bay St. Louis and in New Orleans, one often gets the answer,"Bacatown" when asking people where they live. Bacatown translated, refers to the back side of town, another way of, perhaps, saying the wrong side of the tracks.
