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Pilgrimage Guide
PILGRIMAGE TO
PONTOTOC
By offering tour homes of a variety of architectural eras and calling on the talents of the local garden club, Pontotoc offers a most colorful tour of homes.
Spring has come to "The Land of Hanging Grapes" and with it a pilgrimage that brings people from far and near to share the beauty of homes and gardens bedecked with the best nature has to offer. Young Travis and Gordon Tutor stand at the door of Lochinvar dressed in their Sunday best and on their best be-havior. They greet visitors and hand out brochures about their parents’ historic home with the seriousness that children achieve on such occasions.
Lochinvar is the historic home of Drs. Forrest and Janice Bums Tutor. Their son admires the magnificent spiral staircase (above) and one of its beautiful chandeliers (right).
Garden Club of Pontotoc. In the rather small club; 23 pairs of hands have spent weeks preparing for the tour, helping nature show off her best dress all around town.
On this April day, Pontotoc could be called the land of riotously blooming flowers. Private lawns and public plots in town are landscaped with spring flowers vying with one another for the attention of those who walk and drive the tour. Viewed from sidewalks and streets, the whole town seems awash in color, and the tour spreads into countryside
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______________________________ PHOTOGRAPHS BY JACK GURNER --------------------------------------
22A MARCH/APRIL 1993