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Courthouse in Ellisville, Mississippi
Full text linkA black and white photograph of the Jones County Courthouse in Ellisville, Mississippi is featured on this postcard. The courthouse is a two story building with round columns at the entrances and dental molding around the top edges of the building. Trees and a small gazebo are in the courtyard and a black iron fence runs between the sidewalk and the yard of the courthouse. The title of the card is printed along the bottom edge of the card.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-lampton-images-ms-pine-belt/1372/thumbnail.jp
Lincoln County Courthouse and Jail, Brookhaven, Mississippi
Full text linkA black and white image of the Lincoln County Courthouse and Jail in Brookhaven, Mississippi is featured on this postcard. The courthouse, pictured on the left, is a split-level building with a tower on the left, front corner, arched windows, and arched entrance. The county jail, pictured on the right, is a three story building with a cupola in the center of the roof and an gabled front elevation. The windows in of the center of the second floor are arched an all the windows have bars over them. The title of the card is printed in red along the top of the image and the publisher is printed in small, red print along the right edge of the image.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-lampton-images-ms-pine-belt/1377/thumbnail.jp
Barron Motor Company, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Full text linkThe two story, red brick storefront of the Barron Motor Company, a Ford and Lincoln dealership in Hattiesburg, Mississippi is featured in this postcard. The building is lined with large windows on stories and the company name is in yellow lettering on the brick. Turn of the 20th century cars are pictured parked outside the building. The title of the card is printed along the bottom of the card and a map of Hattiesburg is printed on the back of the card.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-lampton-images-ms-pine-belt/1382/thumbnail.jp
Intergenerational Creative Movement Program: A Social Connection Intervention to Foster Health and Well-Being
Full text linkA sense of connection and belonging is widely recognized to be essential for mental health. Yet, since the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness, social isolation, and mental health problems have remained elevated across America. Transitions into young adulthood and older age, while distinct, similarly challenge social connectedness, especially among women. Our multi-lesson education program connected first-generation female college students with college-educated forty-plus women to foster belonging and improve mental health. The program integrated dance as a creative physical activity, promoted intergenerational engagement through a humanistic focus on generativity, and used a social network approach to gauge the development of connections among participants across the multi-lesson period. Social network analyses (SNA) revealed the program’s success in building close intergenerational connections, reinforced by qualitative insights from in-depth interviews that highlighted an emergent sense of belonging. Pre- and post-intervention surveys showed these connections significantly improved participants’ mental health. These findings were further supported by a comparison of mental health assessments between the participant (n = 20) and control groups (n = 20). Our findings demonstrate the potential for creative movement and SNA techniques to be scaled up in other community settings, highlighting their applicability in fostering social connectedness and enhancing mental health, particularly relevant to aging populations
Creating Intergenerational Connections: A Multilevel Approach for Enriching Lives and Addressing Vital Community Issues
Full text linkThis article presents an overview of intergenerational programs and practices as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and practice that fosters open communication, support, and civic engagement across generations. Numerous examples of how intergenerational programs and practices harness age diversity to improve the human condition are presented. This includes initiatives to promote healthier lifestyles, reduce social isolation and loneliness, strengthen families, enrich education and lifelong learning, enhance community quality of life, and transmit cherished cultural traditions and values. This article highlights Extension’s longstanding contributions to intergenerational programming, showcasing notable examples across program areas and exploring opportunities for deeper engagement, co-leadership, and innovation in this expanding field. More broadly, this article also explores the evolution of the intergenerational field and shifts in how intergenerational initiatives are defined, understood, and embedded into social networks, organizational structures, and community life. Ultimately, the authors argue for a fuller embrace of a multilevel approach for integrating an intergenerational lens into existing systems and creating social structures that reflect the opportunities presented by an age-diverse society
Propelling Aging-Related Initiatives in a Next-Gen Cooperative Extension System: Editors’ Introduction to the JHSE Special Issue on Aging
Full text linkMolecular Detection of Rickettsia felis in Dermacentor albipictus from Mississippi
No full textDermacentor albipictus (Packard), the winter tick, is a one-host tick often found in high numbers on horses, moose, elk, and deer in the northern United States and parts of Canada. In Mississippi, there have been very few collections of D. albipictus. Herein we report the collection and molecular screening of 5 male specimens and 3 nymphs of the winter tick for rickettsial organisms. Broad PCR screening using a PanRickettsia TaqMan PCR assay targeting a portion of the 23 s gene was utilized, and a family-wide Anaplasmataceae SYBR real-time PCR assay was chosen for initial screening of tick eluates. PanRickettsia PCR-positive samples were then amplified using a conventional PCR targeting the citrate synthase (gltA) gene for species identification. One resultant amplicon was 99.75% identical to Rickettsia felis DNA. This is the first report of R. felis in the winter tick, D. albipictus
Progress and Regression, Modernity and Social Evolution
Full text linkThis paper deals with progress and evolution. Regarding progress, it in particular critically engages with recent works (Wagner, Allen, Jaeggi), arguing that we need a more assertive perspective. Our immersion in an evolutionarily and contingently created but globally established (modern) imaginary is found to underpin that more assertive perspective of progress. To articulate its perspective more generally, the paper draws upon a former elaboration on evolutionary homology and homoplasy regarding power. Thereby it tackles the development of morals/ethics, leading to a discussion of progress – and regression – including but going beyond material and cognitive issues. It grapples with evolutionary theory (introducing ‘homoplasy’ and ‘convergence’) and discontinuist views of history, as well as modernity, also glancing at some post/decolonial perspectives regarding history (Chakrabarty, Dussel). Finally, the text introduces the concepts of retrospective teleology and of prospective teleology in order to frame how these issues are, or may be, dealt with within the imaginary of contemporary modernity, in which universalized equal freedom – and universal solidarity – appear as a criterion for progress
Christmas Card, Idell Brumfield to Anna Buchanan, December 15, 1960
Full text linkThe cover of this Christmas card features multiple illustration of children in costume playing instruments and carrying flowers. The inside of the card, dated December 15, 1960, includes a brief note from Idell Brumfield to Anna Buchanan in which Brumfield asks if Buchanan\u27s mother has passed. An envelope with Swedish postage stamps and a Stockholm postmark is included.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-james-franklin-buchanan/1010/thumbnail.jp