Marshall, John
Kansas, Texas, who cares?
When GateHouse Media last November bought The Salina Journal, Hutchinson News and four other remnants of what was once the Harris Newspaper Group. The...
Marshall, John
The long, slow death of Harris Enterprises
It began in 1988 on a grim October afternoon and ended three decades later, in November 2016:
A once-stellar newspaper group breathed its last.
The first...
Marshall, John
Highways and food, none in moderation
CARTHAGE, Miss.– We traveled the Natchez Trace until the gas gauge told us the car needed a fill. We took highway 16 east through...
Marshall, John
A search for special places (Part 7) – Mississippi and Kansas: reconciliation and relapse
Mississippi and Kansas: reconciliation and relapse
My urge to visit Mississippi was driven mostly by two compulsions: a longing to explore the great Delta, landscape...
Marshall, John
A search for special places (Part six)
That mysterious ‘state of mind ...’ John J. Ingalls, the attorney, writer and politician, coined the Kansas motto Ad Astra per Aspera. Ingalls, a...
Marshall, John
When 40,000 people lose their water
JACKSON, Miss. - Imagine Salina, all of it, without water - not a drop - for three days. Or Hutchinson.
On Thursday, March 9, officials...
Marshall, John
A search for special places (Part five)
At the Blue Front Cafe:
BENTONIA, Miss. - Twenty miles northwest of Jackson, this town is marked only by the smallest sign. On a pole,...
Marshall, John
A search for special places
(Part four)
JACKSON, Miss. - One of the most penetrating stories to come out of the south, one that confronts race and class and heritage...
