Located eight miles northeast of Kosciusko, Ethel was established in 1883 and named for the daughter of an official of the Illinois Central Railroad. The town was first known as Stonewall and was formed from the estates of Robert Bell, John Lane, and John Cook. Robert Bell's father, Charlie, brought a colony to this area in 1874. He bought 800 acres of land for fifty cents an acre. He sold home sites to those who were able to pay and gave sites to those who would come but unable to afford the land.

Stephen Chandler is a resident of Ethel and he specializes in finding old wood and bringing it back to life through furniture, doors, flooring and many other ways.

Willie James Foster, known around his home of Greenville, Mississippi as the "Godfather of The Blues", says, "I am the blues from the bottom of my foot to the hair on my head. I was born in the blues, raised in the blues and lived the blues." "Mississippi Roads" was lucky enough to interview Willie Foster just a few months before he passed away in the Spring of 2001.

The Old Terminal Building at Hawkins Field in Jackson was built in 1936 and is of national importance as one of only a few relatively intact civil aviation facilities surviving the 1930's. Today, the terminal building is listed on The Ten Most Endangered Historic Places in Mississippi, and stands abandoned and deteriorating.

On this week's edition of Walt's Way, Walt uncovers traces of the Old Natchez Trace that you might not know are still in existence.

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