We drove into Jackson. The weather was beautiful, crisp, clear, sunny and not too warm.
Jackson is the State Capital of Mississippi. However, like Frankfort in KY it is not too big. It does however have two Capitol buildings. The older one was replaced in about 1920 because of structural problems and water damage as a result of a passing hurricane and it having been outgrown by the administration. Rather than knock it down, they have developed it as a museum about itself! It also tells the story of how the elected houses work. It was very interesting. Before we went in we needed lunch, so I just stopped a random guy, who was photographing the building. We started talking and it turns out that his family had made the lime that was used in the mortar when the original capitol was built in the 1840's. He also directed us to Hal and Mel's, a bar round the corner in an old warehouse, where you could get great seafood. We had a very pleasnat lunch. Sally and I tried Gumbo for the first time. It is a spicy soup of shrimp and chicken and vegetables poured over rice (at least this one was), which we had with a crawfish (freshwater shrimp) Po Boy (open sandwich). We loved this - also loved the restroom which was done out as a graffiti style tribute to Elvis, with lots of quotes about Elvis drawn on the wall (if you can't beat them join them must be their motto).
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