dearmarymargaret
My blogs
| Location | Jackson, Mississippi, United States |
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| Introduction | Mary Margaret Miller White is the wife of Barry White and mother of Weezie. She enjoys getting her hands dirty, cooking from the hip and hanging out with friends. During the work week she serves as Marketing & Branding Director at the nonpartisan news source Mississippi Today. She is host of Next Stop Mississippi on Mississippi Public Broadcasting Radio and a member of the Green Ladies Marching Krewe. A native of the Mississippi Delta, Mary Margaret has lived in the Fondren neighborhood of Jackson for nearly 10 years. Her writing and photography has appeared in The Clarion-Ledger, The Tennessean, Living Blues Magazine, Delta Magazine and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. She received an MA in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi where she wrote a thesis on race, place and social identity in the rural American South entitled, “From King Cotton to Custom Kitchens: Revitalization in Downtown Greenwood, Mississippi.” She has been trained by the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center in documentary fieldwork and oral history technique. |
| Interests | food, family, entertaining, motherhood, art, music, recipes, southern culture, mississippi, friendship, writing |