Dear Paisley,
Today's Show Us Your Life from Kelly's Korner is our hometown. Your daddy and are from Batesville, Mississippi. He was born and raised there, and my family and I settled there when I was about 5 or 6. Anywho....Batesville has grown a lot in the past few years. It's home to Dunlap & Kyle (the corporate office for Gateway Tires & Service).
It's also home to my high school alma mater, the South Panola Tigers...
and one of Pappy's favorites, the Panola Country Club.
Just up the road about 20 minutes, in Oxford, is the University of Mississippi....HOTTY TODDY! The Grove...
My (and Eli Manning's!) college alma mater....
and one of the prettiest collegiate baseball stadiums in the world! Swayze Field.
I'm hoping Kelly will come visit when Arkansas comes to play!!! :)
Batesville and Panola county has been a good place for us. It's a quaint, loving, small town with everything you'd ever need, and it's where our families are. Our square is growing in leaps and bounds and has once again become the center of the town.
We go back to visit a lot, and we are there just about as much as we are in Greenville. Maybe one day we can get back there for good, but it will always be our hometown regardless of where we end up.
