Faith, Folklore, and Friends

Borroum's Drug Store in Corinth, Mississippi, was opened in 1865 and has been in continuous operation since then. Oh, if those walls could talk! I did a selfie without meaning to.  Can you see me in the reflection of the glass? Antique cash registers sit next to the newest technology. They use every available space to show their artifacts.  Check out that ceiling! The soda fountain was hopping.  The line was long, and we had already planned to be somewhere else, so I can't talk about the food.  It looked delicious, and I'm thinking no one would stand in that line if it wasn't. We've got to go back for lunch.  Soon. Very soon.

The first time I heard of Corinth (we called it Car-wrinth), it was in connection with an elopement.  It seems Mississippi had marriage laws that didn't require a waiting period, unlike the ones in Tennessee and Alabama.  So if you were drunk, with child, underage,  just plain ignorant, or in a hurry for some other reason, you could go to Corinth, get married, and be home in time to feed the cows and chickens. Corinth is about seventy miles from where we live, and we visit there occasionally.  It is a beautiful little city, with a functioning combination of the old and the new. When it was founded in 1853, the name of the town was Cross-City, because it was the junction for two railroads, the Mobile & Ohio and the Memphis & Charleston.  W. E. Gibson, editor of the town's early newspaper, suggested the name be changed to Corinth, after the Greek city that also served as a crossroads. Because of the railroads...