Word: stubbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yazoo Motel was taken over en bloc by the White House, with the mystically regarded communications equipment quartered there. In Stubb's restaurant next door. Sheriff Homer Hood showed up in a suit and tie for the first time in recent memory, and at lunches there was an amalgam of reporters, cameramen, White House people, Secret Service and old country boys from the seed stores, feed stores and sawmills, who seemed to wish to preserve an integrity of disinterest but shamed themselves with sneaky over-the-shoulder glances at the outlanders. People watched the national TV news every night...
...become a tourist spot now. "That's always been one of the good things about it, not having any tourists at all," he said. "I'm a progressive person. I want change within ourselves, not from other people. Look what happened to Florida." One day in Stubb's as we ate Yazoo River catfish, Tarpley complained: "I can't find any of my friends today. Nobody's where they ought to be. They're all out looking at the strangers and grinning to get attention. It's scary." Tarpley said it seemed like...