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Article: Chapel in the Kudzu: a decades-old promise is kept with the construction of a country wedding chapel for a special girl.
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Several years ago, two friends made a promise to a little girl: When she was ready to get married, they would build a chapel for her wedding.
Such an incredible promise is not soon forgotten. Some 20 years later, Ginnie Mitchell reminded Gordon Cotton and Hobbs Freeman of that old conversation.
"I have the boy, the ring and the date. Where's the chapel?" Mitchell asked.
"I had planned to build a chapel (for years)," explains Freeman, a multi-talented artist and the mastermind behind the project, "and had started collecting materials."
The site they chose at Campbell's Swamp, south of Vicksburg, was next to a Confederate graveyard on a ...