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The Aurora Borealis Moves South
Recently, the light show that is the Aurora Borealis moved South. No one really knows what causes this spectral light show, though there are many theories. Talking to Bill, our website guy, I found that in all his time in Illinois and Wisconsin he never saw them once, in either State.
The Snowbird Special
Escaping from the North for the winter? Heading South? Well stop by Bordeaux Point RV Park where the prices are tolerably low and the average temperature for the year is 56 degrees. Five major casinos are close and one even has a fine golf course. And if you are just trying to escape the insanity of the Northern cities, this is a wonderful destination which you will not be disappointed with.
Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tunica County
I read an awful lot of history. Thirty-some years ago when I moved from Illinois to the South I knew very little about the South, especially the Civil War. However, I have since corrected that. Recently I read “Bust Hell Wide Open; The Life Of Nathan Bedford Forrest” by Samuel W. Mitchum Jr. The saddest part of reading that book was when I finished it.
Follow The Red Clover
An awful lot of times folks have had problems finding Bordeaux Point RV Park, at least for the very first time. We have done our best to make it easy with signs, billboards, and we even have a map on the bottom of the website to help ya out.
Bordeaux Point Security Staff
Bordeaux Point RV Park is rather secluded, from most humans at least. Seven miles from town, the camp is so peaceful – just the way we like it. But it doesn’t stay that way all by itself. So we thought it would be a good idea to introduce everyone to our security staff
Big Changes on the Cutoff
Before we say anything else we would like to thank Ed and PK, our friends and the creators of the Levee Commissary, and say they will both be dearly missed. At the same time, we would like congratulate PK on her much deserved retirement, which seems to be arriving for her in April.
PK has been a perfectionist as she ran the Commissary, and often times she was a blur as she oversaw the daily operations of our little oasis on the “dry” side of the levee. However, it is now official, the Levee Commissary has been sold to our neighbors, and good friends, Tracy and Tara Mallet. This promises to make the adjustment for the locals a very easy transition.
AD Applies for a Job at Tunica Manufacturing
Tunica manufacturing was a quilting plant which made furniture pads. AD was headed there from the Lula pulp yard. It was run by a man known as Pickerwood. He drove the lift that loaded the train cars with pulp wood. Pickerwood lived and worked out of a green Dodge motor home parked next to an old garage.
AD was his apprentice and every Saturday afternoon they’d go to the woods and cut trees to drive stakes in the ground. They’d do this by felling the trunks on the stakes and betting who could come closest to hitting their stakes.
The Hollywood
In 1969 both of my brothers were in college while I was in high school, living at home with my dad. He had a heart condition and sugar-poor health. Bard came home from college for the summer. He decided he would stay out a semester and help with dad.
When Paw Was A Putting Maw
Back up to 67 years ago, our folks lived in a two story plantation house. It was the Tate brothers, my dad moved here in 1937 from Memphis to oversee the Plantation.
The Big Roy Buddha
There once was a man called Big Roy, who had the gift of gab. He ran the bait shop and think-tank here at Bordeaux Point.
The Timber Cruise
In Tait Tate’s early years, at age of 19, he went to work as a forester for the Mississippi Forestry Commission. He sent us this story.
$200
Per Week
All Utillities Included
City Water and Sewer
Free Boatramp Usage
Levee Commissary
$35
Per Night
All Utillities Included
City Water and Sewer
Free Boatramp Usage
Levee Commissary
Area Map
Green markers indicate Casinos,
Blue signifies Restaurants,
Purple are County facilities of interest,
while the Red marker is, of course, Bordeaux Point RV Park.
Area Map
Green markers indicate Casinos,
Blue signifies Restaurants,
Purple are County facilities of interest,
while the Red marker is, of course, Bordeaux Point RV Park.
Fish Report by Tait Tate
Well, we hain’t heard from Tait Tate for some time now, obviously.
But not to worry. He usually does a kind of hibernation during the winter. We reckon some-wheres on the peninsula but we jes’ cain’t be sure.
He’ll be back tellin’ us about the fishin’. He always comes back.
We kinda think it has somethin’ to do with that gold coin he wears.