Biloxi, Mississippi (2000)

“On the way to New Orleans for the Nokia Sugar Bowl to watch Michael Vick lead the underdog Virginia Tech Hokies against the eventual champion Florida State Seminoles.

This pic reflects the morning after a night of debauched lunacy in Biloxi, MS that began with Pope singing karaoke to Clarence Carter’s “Strokin'” to a casino full of geriatric emphysema patients and ended (as many pre-marriage drunken nights invariably did) at the Waffle House.”

Major George Lowrey

From FB:

“During the 1760s and ’70s, marriages of Cherokees and other southeastern Indians with Scots, English, Germans, and Irish became increasingly common… George Lowrey married Nannie of the Holly Clan, and their son George, born about 1770, figured prominently in the affairs of the Cherokee nation until his death in 1852. Mary Adir, widow of the Pawnee Samuel Horse Chief, has stated, ‘Although we have been Cherokee Nation citizens for generations, we remember our Scots heritage.'”

– “How the Irish and Scots Became Indians: Colonial Traders and Agents and the Southeastern Tribes,” New Hibernia Review, Autumn 1999