Some of the loveliest places for families to visit in the United States help the visitor understand America....

What the Civil War meant to the American South is perhaps

most palpable in Natchez, Mississippi and the food is great, too!

The best place to stay in Natchez, isn't in Natchez, but in Vidalia, named after its most famous citizen, Jerry Lee Gore Vidal. I bet you can't say that name fast twice!

 I love the Magnolia Grill and the River .    

Longwood -it really was Gone with the Wind.

Every time we go to Natchez, we take the horse drawn  carriage tour, tour Rosalie and Stanton Hall, eat at the Carriage House,  tamales at Fat Mama's, and  B-B-Q at the Pig Out  Inn  ...and always  at Pearl Street Pasta .

If you like bread pudding with Williamsburg low ceilings, try KINGS TAVERN, the oldest building in Natchez, standing before 1789.  Operated as a tavern, stage stop, and a mail station at end of Natchez Trace.  Now owned and restored by the Pilgrimage Garden Club of Natchez.