Holly Springs Book

This photograph of the Marshall County Courthouse surrounded by wagons filled with cotton is from Mississippian Chesley Thorne Smith's book Childhood in Holly Springs: A Memoir. The book, illustrated with many period photographs collected by the author, provides a view of life in the small town in north Mississippi from 1910 to 1930. Copies ($9.95 each, plus $1.25 shipping and handling) are available from Square Books in Oxford (601-236-2262) or from the publisher, Thomas-Berryhill Press, Box 178, Lafayette, CA 94549; telephone 510-284-7176.