SAM R. HALL: Tupelo is still home despite the years
You can never go home again, or so conventional wisdom tells us. The saying â adapted from Thomas Wolfeâs âYou Canât Go Home Againâ â warns us to beware of nostalgia. Doing so can lead to disappointment akin to meeting your heroes or â worse still â sacrificing progress at the altar of a romanticized past. Nostalgia and even a bit of surrealism has been plentiful as Iâve returned to Tupelo, where I was born, remembering growing up here and in Pontotoc. Some of my first memories are from living on Shady Lane in Pontotoc, going to the two-screen movi...
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