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Smithville, Mississippi: After tornado, an abiding faith

The post office is gone. The school is gone. City Hall is gone. Most of the churches are gone. Nearly every building in Smithville, Mississippi is gone — or so heavily damaged they will have to be demolished. The devastation from last week’s F5 tornado is so widespread, so absolute, that it’s easier to tally what remains: The telephone company. Coker’s Han-D-Mart. And an unshakeable sense of faith.

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Carmen Sisson May 2, 2011 August 16, 2014Published Favorites, Recent Bylines April 27, faith, Mississippi, religion, Smithville, South, TIME, tornado, tornado outbreak 0

Mardi Gras on Grand Isle amid oil spill remnants

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Tangled ropes of purple, gold and green beads sailed through the air, landing with a thwack on Louisiana Highway 1 on Sunday afternoon. If ever a town needed Mardi Gras, it is Grand Isle — the first populated piece of U.S. territory to see oil make land following the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon.

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Carmen Sisson March 12, 2011 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, Grand Isle, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mardi Gras, oil spill, TIME 1

Fire department watches couple’s home burn down

Tempers flared inside a northwestern Tennessee courtroom Monday night as residents and local firefighters argued about the expansion of a local subscription-only fire-department policy that has ignited debate across the country.

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Carmen Sisson October 20, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines fire, fire department, Obion County, pay-to-spray, South Fulton Fire Department, Tennessee, TIME, Union City 0

Scenes from the World’s Longest Yard Sale

World's Longest Yard Sale

Traffic is jammed, bumper to tailgate, but no one seems to mind. Drivers cruise along at crawl speed, hanging out their windows from time to time to wave and yell friendly greetings to one another. The smell of barbecue hangs like Southern perfume in the sweltering heat, and strains of “Sweet Home Alabama” blast from roadside speakers. In the heart of Dixie, where college football is religion and every day is a good day to celebrate, the World’s Longest Yard Sale might as well be redubbed the Biggest Tailgate Party.


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Carmen Sisson August 9, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, economy, Gadsden, offbeat, poverty, South, TIME, tourism, World's Longest Yard Sale, yard sale 0

At Kentucky’s Fancy Farm, a Senate race heats up

If you want to be elected in the Bluegrass State, there’s only one place to be the first Saturday in August: Fancy Farm, Ky., where old-fashioned politics meets dyed-in-the-wool religion, and the differences are evened out by the glorious, gluttonous, gastronomic magic of charred pork and mutton at the annual Fancy Farm picnic-cum-political rally.

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Carmen Sisson August 9, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Fancy Farm, Jack Conway, Kentucky, politics, Rand Paul, Senate, TIME 0

The Swine Flu Wars: H1N1 Comes to Alabama

Obama H1N1 vaccine

Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide.

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Carmen Sisson August 28, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, education, H1N1, health, swine flu, TIME, Tuscaloosa 0
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