The following gas price chart ran in Sunday’s Business & Money section of the Daily Journal. Since then, the national average according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge is now $4.02 - the first time it’s ever been more than $4.00.
The state average currently is $3.87.
Here’s the regional roundup of gas prices that ran in the Sunday Daily Journal. Click on the graphic for a bigger version.
Check back Friday for more gas prices.
Here’s the regional roundup of gas prices that ran in the Sunday Daily Journal. Click on the graphic for a bigger version.
Check back Friday for more gas prices.
OK. Playing catchup from yesterday’s meeting of the Natchez Trace Compact, the organization that promotes the communities along the Trace in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.
The big news is they are going to revamp www.scenicTrace.com. New colors, new features, new photos. The prototype looks impressive. A launch date hasn’t been set yet. The group also is getting a lot more aggressive with its online efforts. One of the main pushes is to buy tons of keywords on Google. The terms include the major geographic areas the Trace covers, plus categories such as American Indian, RVing, motorcycling, hiking, outdoor recreation and birding.
The Chickasaw museum is still in the works for Tupelo, but the National Park Service officials said there isn’t anything new to report. A site hasn’t been selected either.
There also was a lot of talk about fall foliage along the Trace. It’s a big reason why October is the park’s busiest month. The main message from the Compact members is that our region has just as much fall foliage as New England (but questions do remain about the effects of the drought).
Lots of reports from the member communities along the 444-mile scenic byway. One of the more interesting one sounds like Tishomingo’s Trash & Treasure event Saturday. The organizers are calling it the state’s largest yard sale. It starts at the Tennessee/Mississippi state line and goes along the Tenn-Tom Waterway down to Columbus. For more info, call 423-0051 or 1-800-386-4373.
A Chickasaw cultural museum is in the works for Tupelo, according to an official with the National Park Service. Find out more in Tuesday’s Daily Journal.
The news came during a Natchez Trace Compact meeting held at the Renasant Center for IDEAs today. The 21 people in attendance from the main cities along the Natchez Trace talked about the Trace and tourism in their areas.
Some highlights from the meeting include:
• The Natchez Trace will have an arts trail Sept. 29. Check out www.scenictrace.com for more info. A longer art and literary festival is planned for spring 2008.
• The Tupelo City Council has approved the CVB’s plans to expand its office space and has issued $1.3 million in bonds to pay for the construction. The CVB now is looking for temporary offices while construction is under way.
Also, there’s an independent feature film being shot in Tupelo. Stay tuned for a story from Scott Morris about what’s going on.
• Tishomingo is having a Trash and Treasures event on Oct. 3 along the Tenn-Tom Waterway. It’s new, and it’s set up so each town from the Tennessee state line down to Columbus will have an organized yard sale.
• Jackson is talking about creating an antique car show. Not sure what sort of crossover - if any - this will have with the Tupelo Automobile Museum.
• Mississippi’s tourism division has identified 125 Civil War sites in the state. The archives and history department now is evaluating the sites in the effort to create a Civil War driving tour.
The division’s plans for a civil rights driving tour are now under the Governor’s Civil Rights Commission and all efforts will be directed by that commission.
As for new initiatives, the tourism division is working on an arts inventory, with hopes to create an art and gallery guide. The tourism folks are also working with the Southern Foodways Alliance to enhance the state’s culinary tourism efforts.
• Bobby King, hired by the Compact, will conduct surveys at nine points along the Trace to find out more about the visitors. The surveying was originally scheduled to start in October, but now will start in spring 2008 and run through the fall.
The Compact had set aside $25,000 to pay for the research, but King said with $20,000 going toward labor, the remainder won’t be enough to pay for analysis. So, in his role as program manager for Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance, he donated $5,000 to the project, with the caveat that the survey include a question about people’s willingness to explore areas off the Trace.
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