Tall Light of Highhill

The third wonder of Southwest Mississippi I'm gonna talk about is the Tall Light of Highhill. Highhill ain't exactly what you'd call a town. It ain't even a village. I reckon it's best described as a hole in the road. But they got a wonder there in their radio tower. It's by far the tallest thing around here. I heard tell if it were laid down on the ground it would be like a couple of football fields long or something like that. On the top of the tower they got this light. It's supposed to be red, but Jaybird Atcheson climbed up there a year or so ago and put in a blue bulb and now it puts out a purple glow. A few years after my second wife died, she were the one hit by a streetcar in New Orleans, I started going out with womens again. I used that Tall Light to help me decide whether to keep dating 'em. Almost always when we passed close by the tower they would ask me what that tower were for? And I told them it were built to put that light on top so airplanes wouldn't run into it. The ones what said, "Oh, I see," was the ones I kept on dating. You see my first two wives was real smart womens and I loved them both, but for the time being I just warn't up to keeping up with smart women. Don't you know?

Hollis' book of the day:
All the King's Men  by Robert Penn Warren - Put your fate in the hands of a politician, sit back and do nothing for yourself, and see how that turns out.