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The town of Port Gibson, Mississippi is in need of your help. Declared "too beautiful to burn" by Ulysses S. Grant during the notoriously destructive Vicksburg Campaign of 1863, Port Gibson has become one of the most historically significant towns in the South. Now, a highway expansion project and almost twenty years of indecision and infighting threaten to transform Church Street, a lovely, tree-lined avenue, into a major interstate. Meet a few locals determined to save this national treasure.



Help unite the community around an Eastern bypass!

Sign the petition to save Port Gibson at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-port-gibson-missi...




For more information on other ways you can help the cause, please visit:

www.portgibsonheritagetrust.org




Credits -

A Pete's House Production

A film by Grady McGahan

Shot by: Robert Northrup

Archival Footage: Robert Clark

Music: "The Second Battle of Port Gibson" by Lonesome Mel, Mary Mac, and Larry

Special Thanks: Bob Thibodeaux, Terry Merritt, Jane Ellis, Al Hollingsworth, Shirley & Willie Daigle, Georgia's at the Depot, and Port Gibson Heritage Trust

If you like the music, be sure to check out www.myspace.com/lonesomemel
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15 responses // Saving Port Gibson

  • Port Gibson's Church Street is what makes the South so wonderful and so charming.
    CharlieG
  • Thanks for uploading this to share with the Current community. I hope the end result is what's best for your beautiful town.

    Remember you can embed this video all over the internet. If you need help figuring it out just ask.
    aschneider
  • Very nice Grady. Very nice indeed.
    CatMcGahan
  • i love the windsor ruins! i drank spiced rum there once during the winter. it was great.
    jarratt
  • It seems obvious that this is something worth saving, not fighting over.

    I hope the right thing is done here.

    Off to sign that petition now.
    publiusque
  • Growing up in Port Gibson, I can say that walking up and down Church St. is part of what you do. To cut down the trees and put in a highway would kill a huge part of the town.
    It was nice to see Mel again.
    genni
  • Amazing film. I'll be telling people to sign the petition.
    armlessmongoose
  • http://www.portgibsonheritagetrust.org/
    ragingpuppy
  • Great film Grady. Hope they save this town.
    govdesign
  • I really liked it. Also, great production values. Put it on TV!!! It speaks to a larger issue.
    carrious
  • I wonder what will happen? Thank you so much for sharing this story. Save Church Street, Port Gibson, Mississippi. The advantages of saving this National Treasure far outweigh a highway. You can still have a highway and preserve such a beautiful place. You can always build highways, you could never just simply "construct" a place as wonderful and charming presented in this story.
    mjsmith11
  • What we see here, in yet another achievement by Pete's House Productions, is the true soul of Port Gibson embodied by such characters as the Mayor, McFatter and so forth. The movie captures that essence marvelously and for such a great cause. It is not just Port Gibson, it is all of us that could lose something special - a real piece of America's historical identity. Lost to inaction.



    I say sign the petition!
    macdougal
  • It's rare to see a video that tells me how I can help instead of just leaving me wondering if anything can or will be done. I hope my signature makes a difference. Good job!
    makeitso
  • I grew up in Port Gibson, but haven't lived there since 1976. Since I still have a number of friends and distant relatives there, this fight to save Church Street has reconnected me with some of them, and I joined the heritage trust.
    I lived in 2 houses on Church Street and was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal church, the church nearest to the highway. Frankly, this street should NEVER have been used as a major highway, and I think that's where the problem began: when it was first widened in the late 1950s, they just didn't anticipate 21st century traffic. It's noisy all the time, and the sooner a bypass OUTSIDE of town is constructed, the better!
    Thanks for this interesting broadcast.
    stanmugs
  • grady!

    wow, i am sooo impressed. i had no idea you were up to all this great filmmaking...so cool that you are making people aware of the little things out there that people are doing to seriously make this world a nicer place to live.

    keep on keepin' on!

    nikki
    neoncool

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