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Pilgrimage Guide
PILGRIMAGE TO PONTOTOC
Ricki Parker, also on Main Street, is another vintage home, restored with modern interior design and modern furnishings. Built in the 1880s as a one level structure, second and third stories were added in 1927.
Ricky and Donna Hodge live in a newer part of town in a house built three years ago and decorated by Renee Stepp. Among all the spacious rooms, the mirrored dining room with its crystal chandelier stands out as a multicolored dream of reflected color and bloom.
Just north of town Mr. and Mrs. Ray Reese combined their love for gardening to turn the acreage surrounding their home into an outdoors showplace. Visitors find a steppingstone path to a formal rose garden and nearby wooded areas where azaleas and dogwood and wild ferns grow, plus a waterfall, fish pond, redwood arbor, and a patio where tropical plants are tended.
Mike and Wanda Childers live in an 80yearold house in Ecru, a small town near Pontotoc, and their spacious fourbedroom home underwent extensive restoration a few years ago. Visitors last year noted the 12 foot ceilings, oversized original windows, original pine floors, and, Mrs. Childers says, "an eclectic collection of furnishings."
Also in Ecru, visitors toured the home of Gary and Shirley Larson, where many of its 4,000 square feet of space showed the handiwork of garden club members. Mrs. Larson describes her home as "nostalgic," furnished with a combination of modern furniture, antiques, and reproductions.
Past spring tours have included everything from log cabin to mansion, from old homes to new. It is what makes Pontotoc’s pilgrimage a little different from most of the pilgrimages around the state. This year’s event planned for April 18 will offer a sprinkling of homes from many eras as well as, of course, Lo-chinvar.
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COLUMBUS PILGRIMAGE APRIL 1-11
In addition'to thirteen gracious antebellum homes, the Columbus Pilgrimage also offers a unique glimpse into the past with breathtaking candlelight tours and "Tales From The Crypt," a graveyard tour. Come to Columbus!
For schedule of year-round events contact the
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Convention & Visitors Bureau P.O. Box 789 Columbus, MS 39703 1-800-327-2686
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