Exploring the Natchez Trace Parkway: motorists cruise into yesteryear on this scenic corridor winding through the heart of Mississippi.(Tour Of The Month)

From: Travel America | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In the middle of her front yard, folk artist L.V. Hull stood in her sock feet wearing a purple and white polka dot dress.

"I never was crazy about no grass," she has been quoted as saying. As proof, her handiwork surrounded her: stacks of lampshades, helmets, polka-dotted flower pots, and shoes--roller skates, ski boots, heels, sandals, tennis shoes, cheerleader boots. Every inch of ground where grass or trees might have grown, L.V.'s yard is covered with shoes and other odds and ends. Many are painted with her favorite polka dot designs.

"You see something you like," she ...

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