makes me proud to be from Greenville.

[Woodduckdawg]

Washington Ave gangsta here

[Jelly]

st joe 1990

[duckchur1]

Deer Creek '99

[Chad Evans]

Greenville Christian 96 my little sister 97

[Cephous]

Class of 1985 - Washington School

You know some of my cousins then.

[msudawg8087]

any of yall greenville folks know any shermans...thats my kin folk. my dad graduated from St. Joe and my mom from one of the schools in Leland....not sure about the years though

[Jelly]

any of yall greenville folks know any shermans...thats my kin folk. my dad graduated from St. Joe and my mom from one of the schools in Leland....not sure about the years though

I know most of those rascals. good folks

[tlp888]

GCS Class of 2000. I lived in the county though.

[TODO]

Im from cleveland but knew a lot of folks from greenville . . . its amazing the amount of white flight that has occured there, mainly to the jackson/madison area i think. There has been a lot of nice white familys leave greenville for greener pastures over the last 15 years.

[missed mallards]

Deer Creek '03

Ain't nothing like this place. Swore to everyone when I graduated college I would never move back. Really wish I would have kept to my word.

As far as families leaving? Know of a lot of folks that have left in search of greener pasture's. I sure hope I don't get "stuck" here. It is home, but the things I want in life, aren't here.

[Blackwater]

This type of thing is happening all over Mississippi, (and the south) I was raised around the Bolton/Edwards area and it is no different. Growing up you could go to 'downtown' edwards to the Grocery store, Hardware store and such. But now you can not even go in the bank it is drive thru only because of the amount of times they have been robbed. Majority of the businesses downtown are gone and the buildings have been torn down. But there is a moon cricket on every corner. Indians now own the Grocery store and the 2 convience stores in town. Local law enforcement is a joke, your more likely to find Be-Be(no shat that is his name) the Edwards police cheif in Clinton at the Walmart or Krogers in his town of Edwards Police car than patroling in Edwards. I feel sorry for the out of towners/staters that mistakenly get off at the Edwards exit (because they do not know better) to get gas because of the crackheads trying to wash their windsheilds or help pump their gas. When I was little Edwards was a nice place to live/visit I have great memories of growing up there. But now it makes me sick to even ride through 'town', you ride by the low income housing that was built with in sight of interstate and all you see are porch monkeys hanging out all day and night selling more drugs than CVS. I have old newspaper clippings from the 60's urging people from Vicksburg and surrounding areas to go to Edwards to help support the businesses because of them being boycotted by the blacks and they did. I watch the news and see them talking to the blacks who are talking about being beaten and bit by dogs during the civil rights era trying to get the right to vote. You never see anyone like my grandfather on the news who owned a grocery and feed store in Edwards being interviewed about how during the boycotts he was beaten by a group of moon crickets in front of his store. It just amazes me that in one generation a nice town can be destroyed. Simply amazing. Some still remember the Edwards of my childhood, with family owned stores and decent place to live, but just remember all it took was one generation for it to become what it is now and that is happening everywhere. Sorry about the rant but it just makes me sick to think about it.

[donia]

This type of thing is happening all over Mississippi, (and the south) I was raised around the Bolton/Edwards area and it is no different. Growing up you could go to 'downtown' edwards to the Grocery store, Hardware store and such. But now you can not even go in the bank it is drive thru only because of the amount of times they have been robbed. Majority of the businesses downtown are gone and the buildings have been torn down. But there is a moon cricket on every corner. Indians now own the Grocery store and the 2 convience stores in town. Local law enforcement is a joke, your more likely to find Be-Be(no shat that is his name) the Edwards police cheif in Clinton at the Walmart or Krogers in his town of Edwards Police car than patroling in Edwards. I feel sorry for the out of towners/staters that mistakenly get off at the Edwards exit (because they do not know better) to get gas because of the crackheads trying to wash their windsheilds or help pump their gas. When I was little Edwards was a nice place to live/visit I have great memories of growing up there. But now it makes me sick to even ride through 'town', you ride by the low income housing that was built with in sight of interstate and all you see are porch monkeys hanging out all day and night selling more drugs than CVS. I have old newspaper clippings from the 60's urging people from Vicksburg and surrounding areas to go to Edwards to help support the businesses because of them being boycotted by the blacks and they did. I watch the news and see them talking to the blacks who are talking about being beaten and bit by dogs during the civil rights era trying to get the right to vote. You never see anyone like my grandfather on the news who owned a grocery and feed store in Edwards being interviewed about how during the boycotts he was beaten by a group of moon crickets in front of his store. It just amazes me that in one generation a nice town can be destroyed. Simply amazing. Some still remember the Edwards of my childhood, with family owned stores and decent place to live, but just remember all it took was one generation for it to become what it is now and that is happening everywhere. Sorry about the rant but it just makes me sick to think about it.

Yep, you have just written a template for almost every small town in the Delta, as well. Replace "Edwards" with Isola, Tchula, Arcola, etc, etc, etc.... h3ll, you get the point. No matter how much "empowerment zone" money is thrown at them, they still can't turn it around with the leadership (or at least that is what they call it) that "they" elect b/c they have the numbers and the thought of the "candidate's" fiscal responsibility doesn't even enter the mind of most who voted for them. Just to give you an example - the mayor of town I grew up in has a mayor whose nick name is "burr head" AND he made the statement when confronted about the drug problem in the tiny town of 700 that the "drug dealers gots to make a livin too" .

[Warren]

DeerCreek 02 I lived in Hollandale. I still say though that Jackson aint any better than greenville. I am sure you could find nelson streets in Jackson that are prolly worse.