George County

Two months ago, Lucedale native Eric Moulds was inducted into The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.

It was just over three decades ago, though, that Moulds first gave notice to his home state that he would be a force to be reckoned with on the playing field for years to come.

Moulds was a multi-sport standout for George County High School as his senior season began in 1991. Up to that point, though, the 6-foot-2 muscular speedster was known for his exploits on the basketball court as much if not more so than on the football field.

But all of that changed 31 years ago this week, on Sept. 20, when Moulds and his Rebels traveled to War Memorial Stadium in Pascagoula to take on the home-standing and perennial state power Panthers. It was not only George County’s first year playing in the…

Buzzard Roost, Miss. is exactly what its name implies – a place where buzzards roost.

A handful of good folks roost here too, and in winter months deer and fowl hunters perch themselves amongst pines and swamps in this community bordering the Pascagoula River.

Buzzard Roost was originally known as the Davis Community and inherited its funny nickname more than a hundred years ago as a joke. “A bunch of buzzards roosted in an old tree,” the late Laree Rouse told me years and years ago. She had a second-home camp on the riverbanks. Legends claim the named tree stood at the Double Branches bridge crossing towards Pierce Lake at what old-timers referred to as the “Lonesome Cypress” site.

Today, few people in George County know the crossing at Old River Road and Old Highway 26 as…