Word: tylertown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than six weeks the 1,700 citizens of Tylertown, Miss., waited on tiptoe for their first celebrity visitor in decades. Last week Martha Mitchell blew into town accompanied by her personal seamstress. Ostensibly on hand for the wedding of her son Jay Jennings to a local girl and fellow dropout from the University of Mississippi Law School Janis Crawford, Martha quickly took the mint out of everyone's juleps...
Dressed flamboyantly, she overshadowed even her blonde daughter-in-law, a former Miss Hospitality of Walthall County, and upstaged the wedding ceremony by arriving late because of a flat tire. As for Tylertown, it quivered at the mention of her name. One guest choked at Martha's description of Richard Nixon as "a dirty son of a bitch." Still, most agreed that years in the Northern wilderness had not spoiled her. Said Tylertown Times Editor Paul Pittman...