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      • The Tattletale
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      • Cajun Pap
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      • Droughts of the 80s
      • Morning at Bordeaux Point RV Park
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      • The Cutoff Airstrip
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      • Casinos for Tunica
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      • The Cutoff, In The Beginning
      • Cajun Pap
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      • Droughts of the 80s
      • Morning at Bordeaux Point RV Park
    • News
      • The Aurora Borealis Moves South
      • Bordeaux Point Security Staff
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Walking Home From School

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  • Tait Seldon
  • January 22, 2022
Walking home from school was always an adventure. Bard and Clarence were 12 and going to Bruce School over on Bellevue. Tom Chandler, Rolen Wiggs, Cousin Sel and Herb would all walk back home after school.
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Tait Seldon

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.

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May 26, 2024 No Comments
The Snowbird Special
Specials
Bill Frankell

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.

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July 30, 2022 No Comments
History
Bill Frankell

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.

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July 16, 2022 No Comments
Follow The Red Clover
Tait Tate
Tait Seldon

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.

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May 7, 2022 No Comments
Bordeaux Point Security Staff
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Bill Frankell

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

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April 30, 2022 No Comments
Big Changes on the Cutoff
News
Bill Frankell

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.

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April 9, 2022 No Comments
Bordeaux RV Park | AD Applies for a Job at Tunica Manufacturing
Tait Tate
Tait Seldon

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.

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April 2, 2022 No Comments
The Hollywood
Tait Tate
Tait Seldon

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.

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March 26, 2022 No Comments
The Hollywood
History
Tait Seldon

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.

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March 5, 2022 No Comments
Big Roy Buddha
Tait Tate
Tait Seldon

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.

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February 26, 2022 No Comments
The Timber Cruise | The Pink Bunkadoo
Tait Tate
Tait Seldon

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.

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February 19, 2022 No Comments
Mats For All The Fishies - Bordeaux Point RV Park
History
Tait Seldon

Mats For All The Fishies

Back in time, December 1985 preparing for my first up-coming Crappie season.  That’s mat building time.  All fish need structure to feed and not to be a bigger fish’s meal.

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February 5, 2022 No Comments

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$250

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$45.00 City Water/Sewer

130 Lots

Free Boatramp Usage

Levee Commissary

To keep it interesting they’d always keep a bar of brown laundry soap in their back pocket.  Sel and Herb’s dad made Big Jim soap so there was always a box at the back steps.

 

Walking Home From School - Bordeaux Point RV Park
Dyer’s on Beale today.

 

On the way home the street car tracks on Popular Av. West of Cleveland were steep and when the coast was clear the five of them would soap the tracks and the street cars couldn’t go up hill.  They’d just sit and spin.

 

Walking Home From School - Bordeaux Point RV Park

 

At Dyers big skillet you could stop get a burger there for the same as a street car ride home. So since the street car was stuck they’d grab a burger and walk home happy.

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$35

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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.

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