Read our blog for more in-depth views of the unique places, history, things to do, and events that are happening in and around the city of Canton, Mississippi!
Curiosity makes a day trip better. Mississippi has more going on behind doors, counters, workshops, and production floors than most people realize.
A factory tour gives you the rare chance to see how something actually gets made, instead of just seeing the finished product on a shelf.
That is the fun of it. You get movement, noise, skill, history, and a few “wait, that is how they do it?” moments along the way. Kids learn something without feeling trapped in a classroom.
We have seen three films this year that remind us that there is hope through our pain—resilience, a capacity to forgive, and to love as human beings on a chaotic and often brutal planet. They are Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left of You, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, and Greg Green’s ’TƎMPEST’. Each, in its own way, taps into a profound desiderium—that deeply human, bittersweet ache for what we have lost that somehow still affirms our desire to go on living for love.
CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) - The annual Mississippi Championship Hot Air Balloon Fest is set for this weekend, and preparations are already underway.
The festival runs from June 26 through June 28, celebrating the hot air balloon festival and America’s 250th birthday.
Organizers say the event will include hot air balloon races, live music, evening balloon glows, food, and other activities.
Family activities include face painting and tethered balloon rides. Fireworks are also planned.
CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) – The annual Mississippi Championship Hot Air Balloon Fest is set for this weekend, and preparations are already underway.
The festival runs from June 26 through June 28, celebrating the hot air balloon festival and America’s 250th birthday.
Organizers say the event will include hot air balloon races, live music, evening balloon glows, food, and other activities.
Family activities include face painting and tethered balloon rides. Fireworks are also planned.
The kind of diner that earns a cross-state drive does not have a social media presence or a PR strategy or a design consultant who suggested the vintage aesthetic. Mississippi has eleven diners that don’t need any of the aforementioned to win hearts.
Mom-and-pop is not a style here. It is a fact about who is actually in the kitchen and who is actually taking the order, and whether those two people went home together last night.
It has to be inherited or built slowly over years of genuinely caring how the plate arrives. Every diner on this list has that quality in full.
Mississippi mornings reward the person willing to drive past the highway exit with the familiar logo and keep going another forty minutes toward true amazingness.
