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Article: Union station spiritual.(On Being Southern)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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A train whistle's remote muted wall in the darkness evokes for many Mississippians reverberations of Meridian's old Union Station--the polish-worn patina of aged brass fixtures, including spittoons, smooth-worn mahogany benches with dividing armrests, red-capped porters striding through the crowd, and the station master, blue-uniformed and authoritative. "The depot," as Meridianites referred to it during my childhood, was to me the beckoning threshold to mysterious wayfaring and far-off destinations.
That was during its heyday of the 1940s and '50s. I took my first train ride on the old Southerner, sleek silver streaked with green, to New Orleans during World War ...
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