In an effort to present an inclusive history of Vicksburg for the city’s 2025 bicentennial, Vicksburg Voices — an initiative by Shape Up Mississippi in partnership with the City of Vicksburg and part of a storytelling cohort designed for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize alumni — is helping ensure the findings of Kruse and others become part of the permanent record.
Author Archives: Jim Beaugez
Jim Beaugez is a Mississippi-based writer whose work has been published by Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Guitar World and other publications. He also created and produced "My Life in Five Riffs," a documentary series for Guitar Player that traces contemporary musicians back to their sources of inspiration.
