Mississippi Roads

Mississippi Roads
Genre	Documentary
Presented by	Walt Grayson
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	19
No. of episodes	910
Production
Executive producer	Key Ivy
Producers	John Allen Art Mcalpin
Running time	26 min.
Production company	Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Original release
Network	Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Release	September 22, 1985 (1985-09-22) – 1994 (1994)
Release	1999 (1999) – June 1, 2023 (2023-06-01)

Mississippi Roads is a show on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. ^[1] Episodes are 26 minutes and 46 seconds long. ^[2] Some episodes have aired on Create as well. ^[3]

The program originally aired from 1985 to 1994 and was brought back in 1999, when Walt Grayson was selected as the host. ^{[4] [2]} Grayson was born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi. ^[5] He graduated high school there and then studied at Mississippi College and began his career as a preacher, but switched to broadcasting and became a weather anchor and feature presenter at WLBT-TV. He now works for WJTV and has authored four books. ^[6]

The show has filmed footage of old pipe organs as part of the story of the state's musical history. ^[7]

Episodes

• Museums, February 19, 2023, features Hattiesburg Pocket, MS Aviation Heritage, Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, and Margaret's Grocery
• Back to the Blues #2 February 12. 2023 featuring Terry "Harmonica" Bean, 100 Men Hall, Central Miss. Blues Society, Gateway to the Blues
• Places to Go, Things to See March 20, 2022 featuring Mississippi River Museum, Biking on the Natchez Trace, Beauvoir, and "Walt’s favorite places"
• Being of Service February 24, 2022 featuring therapy dogs, "shower power", and French Camp Academy Baker
• Towns and Things February 20, 2022 featuring Carrollton, front porches, Jacinto Courthouse, and Brookhaven
• Wise, Wilfull, Women, February 13, 2022, featuring Women's Professional Football, the Belmont Hotel, and Foot Print Farms
• What the Rivers Leave Behind, February 6, 2022, featuring Red Bluff, The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, and "ancient glacier rocks"
• Cars, November 15, 2020, featuring the Model T Club, Scraping the Coast, Interstate Digital Signs, and The Room Car Collection ^[2]

References

1. "Mississippi Roads | MPB" – via video.mpbonline.org.
2. "Mississippi Roads". MPB — Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
3. "CreateTV.com". createtv.com.
4. Threadgill, Jacob. "Walt Grayson sees a different side of Mississippi" . Retrieved 2023-12-10.
5. Ramsey, Marshall (September 12, 2021). "Mississippi Stories: Walt Grayson". Mississippi Today.
6. "MC Christian Studies Leaders Select Longtime Broadcaster for Alumnus Award". Mississippi College.
7. Griffey, Jan (2023-03-05). "PIPE DREAMS: Burnley Cook and his restored Baker Grand pipe organ to be featured on PBS' Mississippi Roads" . Retrieved 2023-12-10.

External links

• Official website