Factory Stores At Batesville

My family is from the south. More specifically, my grandparents on my mother’s side used to live in Lambert, Mississippi. Don’t feel bad if you don’t have any clue where that is. Not many people know where any cities are in Mississippi. My mother once told me that the three biggest cities in Mississippi are Memphis, Birmingham, and New Orleans.
When all of your family lives in the south, then you and your parents get to be the ones to fly back there twice a year to visit. In December we would only go for a week or so but during the summer we would go for weeks on end.
Lambert, Mississippi is a small town. They don’t even have a Piggly Wiggly. The big news around town one summer was about their first stoplight. The next summer the big news around town was how the stoplight had been removed. There wasn’t enough traffic to make it cost effective.
As an only child, spending weeks on end in Lambert, Mississippi, I was really excited when shiny new things began being built in Batesville. Batesville is the «big city» about 15 minutes from Lambert. They have a Piggly Wiggly AND stoplights! First came a Dairy Queen and then the Cracker Barrel. (
) Then they put in the most glorious outlet mall in the history of outlet malls. Granted, it didn’t have the best store selection and the stores were continuously changing but, thank goodness, I had somewhere to keep myself entertained for a few hours and do some back to school shopping. I haven’t returned in a few years but I will always have fond memories of this outlet mall.