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Comments on: A P.S. To the Letter Below http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/ Author of Mississippi Sissy Mon, 21 May 2012 00:40:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Robert L. Williams http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-6524 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:33:57 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-6524 Kevin, I just finished reading your book and was deeply moved by it. I attended Millsaps from 1980 to 84 and new of you from the pictures Lance put up of your performances. I also heard great stories of you from Ward Emling. I received The Frank Hains Award at Millsaps and knew little of what he meant. No one would talk of it. I too was a Mississippi Sissy and had many similar experiences at Millsaps. I was doing a lot of photography at the time and was drawn to the the antebellum house that was falling apart on Webster. My companion, a fellow with the name of Channing Brenholtz who looked like the child of James Dean and Paul Newman was posing for me that day. We went into the abandoned house which had now been stripped to the studs and took several pictures. The lighting combined with the youth of Channing, and the dilapidation of the home cast a timeless quality to the photos. I realized the pictures were now taken in Mr. Hains home. Here is a link to the pictures in what I believe were the last of the house before it was torn down. http://web.mac.com/rob.williams/Site/Lost_Generation.html I briefly met you at Crunch gym here in Los Angeles and we had a nice chat. Congratulations on the success of your book and let me know if you are going to do a reading in the area. I'll make you some Mayflower dressing. Robert Williams Kevin,

I just finished reading your book and was deeply moved by it. I attended Millsaps from 1980 to 84 and new of you from the pictures Lance put up of your performances. I also heard great stories of you from Ward Emling. I received The Frank Hains Award at Millsaps and knew little of what he meant. No one would talk of it.

I too was a Mississippi Sissy and had many similar experiences at Millsaps. I was doing a lot of photography at the time and was drawn to the the antebellum house that was falling apart on Webster. My companion, a fellow with the name of Channing Brenholtz who looked like the child of James Dean and Paul Newman was posing for me that day. We went into the abandoned house which had now been stripped to the studs and took several pictures. The lighting combined with the youth of Channing, and the dilapidation of the home cast a timeless quality to the photos. I realized the pictures were now taken in Mr. Hains home. Here is a link to the pictures in what I believe were the last of the house before it was torn down.

http://web.mac.com/rob.williams/Site/Lost_Generation.html

I briefly met you at Crunch gym here in Los Angeles and we had a nice chat. Congratulations on the success of your book and let me know if you are going to do a reading in the area. I’ll make you some Mayflower dressing.

Robert Williams

]]> by: Jen Weisel, ELLE http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-5539 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:33:10 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-5539 2/16/08: Kevin! Hello! I'm trying to get in touch with you (don't have your email address on me but came across this spot on your blog to get a message to you). Can you contact me asap? Thank you! Congrats on the success of your book! Best, Jen Weisel jweisel@hfmus.com 2/16/08: Kevin! Hello! I’m trying to get in touch with you (don’t have your email address on me but came across this spot on your blog to get a message to you). Can you contact me asap? Thank you! Congrats on the success of your book! Best, Jen Weisel jweisel@hfmus.com

]]> by: David http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-239 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:55:13 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-239 Hi Kevin, You have blown me away. You had a featured article in the Life Section of the Sun Herald this past Sunday. The Sun Herald serves the Mississippi Gulf Coast. As I read the article I became fascinated with your book and of course, you. I clipped the article so I can store it in the book. I was going to the local Walden Books but found your blog and read where you wanted to get the overall number below 100 at Amazon so I logged on the PC at work and I ordered it. While ordering I noticed there was an Audio CD offered so I ordered that also. The book and CD will arrive tomorrow. I was born in Brookhaven MS, I am 57 years old, raised very poor, Southern Baptist and I am Gay. I lived in a tightly locked closet most of younger years. I suspect most folks knew because of some sissy ways I had (have) and the way my voice sounds. Yes, When I was young I was called sissy more than I care to remember. It is strange though as I got older that mostly stopped. I guess I decided to stand up for myself and I demanded respect in adulthood. I don’t want to rattle on right now but you may hear from me again very soon after I have read your book. Dear Lord, bless and keep Kevin Sessums safe and healthy. Grant unto him the strength needed to endure (especially now, during his book signing tour). In Jesus name…amen. PS: Your brother takes care of the ladies in my immediate family and they all really love Doctor Sessums. Respectfully, David Hi Kevin,

You have blown me away. You had a featured article in the Life Section of the Sun Herald this past Sunday. The Sun Herald serves the Mississippi Gulf Coast. As I read the article I became fascinated with your book and of course, you. I clipped the article so I can store it in the book. I was going to the local Walden Books but found your blog and read where you wanted to get the overall number below 100 at Amazon so I logged on the PC at work and I ordered it. While ordering I noticed there was an Audio CD offered so I ordered that also. The book and CD will arrive tomorrow. I was born in Brookhaven MS, I am 57 years old, raised very poor, Southern Baptist and I am Gay. I lived in a tightly locked closet most of younger years. I suspect most folks knew because of some sissy ways I had (have) and the way my voice sounds. Yes, When I was young I was called sissy more than I care to remember. It is strange though as I got older that mostly stopped. I guess I decided to stand up for myself and I demanded respect in adulthood. I don’t want to rattle on right now but you may hear from me again very soon after I have read your book.

Dear Lord, bless and keep Kevin Sessums safe and healthy. Grant unto him the strength needed to endure (especially now, during his book signing tour). In Jesus name…amen.

PS: Your brother takes care of the ladies in my immediate family and they all really love Doctor Sessums.

Respectfully,
David

]]> by: thecopiousprize http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-238 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:44:06 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-238 KEVIN~~ Where shall I start?? This is Jordan, your cousin. I am thrilled for you! Your book is AMAZING. I cannot make myself put it down.....I was actually late for an appointment with my academic advisor this morning because I was so caught up in your words! Let me tell you how impressed I was when, upon entering the Barnes & Noble last week, your adorable picture was staring me square in the face. They had your book front and center, on the very first display table when you walk in the door. I'm thinking, "Here I am in Birmingham, Alabama and my gay cousin's book is ACTUALLY getting recognition". How proud I was! There are many things I would like to tell you....comments on the book thus far, about the family, and about how you have very recently been the catalyst for renewing my hope in my own future. I would love to be able to communicate w/ you through private messages. So far leaving a comment on your blog is the only way I've figure out how to get in touch. My Email adress is : hopelessavage18@yahoo.com If you are interested in looking at pictures, seeing as it has been YEARS, you should go to my MySpace page. (you can click under my pictures to see what I look like @ 23....as well as the whole fam...even Jacob's precious 'oops' (as i like to call her) Julia. there are pictures from Thanksgiving at Pappy's in the woods that I thought you might like) My MySpace URL is : http://www.myspace.com/jordietheliberal Please let me know how I can furthur get in touch w/ you....there is so much I would like to say! (and if you tell me that your signing in Birmingham next week is cancelled, i will cry like a baby ;) Love, Jordan KEVIN~~

Where shall I start?? This is Jordan, your cousin. I am thrilled for you! Your book is AMAZING. I cannot make myself put it down…..I was actually late for an appointment with my academic advisor this morning because I was so caught up in your words!

Let me tell you how impressed I was when, upon entering the Barnes & Noble last week, your adorable picture was staring me square in the face. They had your book front and center, on the very first display table when you walk in the door. I’m thinking, “Here I am in Birmingham, Alabama and my gay cousin’s book is ACTUALLY getting recognition”. How proud I was!

There are many things I would like to tell you….comments on the book thus far, about the family, and about how you have very recently been the catalyst for renewing my hope in my own future. I would love to be able to communicate w/ you through private messages. So far leaving a comment on your blog is the only way I’ve figure out how to get in touch.

My Email adress is : hopelessavage18@yahoo.com

If you are interested in looking at pictures, seeing as it has been YEARS, you should go to my MySpace page. (you can click under my pictures to see what I look like @ 23….as well as the whole fam…even Jacob’s precious ‘oops’ (as i like to call her) Julia. there are pictures from Thanksgiving at Pappy’s in the woods that I thought you might like)

My MySpace URL is : http://www.myspace.com/jordietheliberal

Please let me know how I can furthur get in touch w/ you….there is so much I would like to say!
(and if you tell me that your signing in Birmingham next week is cancelled, i will cry like a baby ;)

Love,
Jordan

]]> by: bobbyj http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-237 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:38:38 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-237 Kevin Just heard you at Prairie Lights. Superb!!!!! I wish you would read the whole book on tape. I would have gladly stayed in my chair while you finished reading the book. I look forward to reading it. I hope you have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY in Iowa City, and that you enjoy Hotelvetro while you are here. Check out the sushi at Formosa Peace and Love bobby Kevin
Just heard you at Prairie Lights. Superb!!!!! I wish you would read the whole book on tape. I would have gladly stayed in my chair while you finished reading the book. I look forward to reading it. I hope you have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY in Iowa City, and that you enjoy Hotelvetro while you are here. Check out the sushi at Formosa
Peace and Love
bobby

]]> by: joe b. stewart http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-233 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:11:08 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-233 Kevin: Here is some information on P. D. East. The P.D. stood for Percival Dale. If you don't know who he was you should. He wrote a book about Mississippi and his life as a crusading editor of THE PETAL PAPER called THE MAGNOLIA JUNGLE. He lived in Hattiesburg, Miss. in the 40s and 50s and 60s. I knew him there and later in Fairhope, Alabama where he died in 1971. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m324.htm?m324text.htm~mainFrame This information is from the Mississippi Room in the library at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Kevin now your book will be in that room along with all the other Mississippi writers. Did you know that Maxwell Bodenheim was from Hattiesburg? Read some of the letters by PD East that are linked on here and see what that man who stayed in Miss. had to put up with. And it wasnt much better in Fairhope either. Most all of his subscribers to the Petal Paper were northern liberals. It was an interesting time to say the least. There is a building on the campus at the University of Southern Mississippi named after an English prof who was a teacher and mentor to PD East. His name was Wilbur White Stout. He taught at USM for 30 or 40 years in the English Dept. and was a legend in his own time. He taught me and many many others the joys and value of literature. He had been at North Carolina with Thomas Wolfe(the orginal one)and Paul Green and The Carolina Playmakers in the 1920s. Here is a PD East quote, " Love your enemies it makes them so damn mad". Kevin: Here is some information on P. D. East. The P.D. stood for Percival Dale. If you don’t know who he was you should. He wrote a book about Mississippi and his life as a crusading editor of THE PETAL PAPER called THE MAGNOLIA JUNGLE. He lived in Hattiesburg, Miss. in the 40s and 50s and 60s. I knew him there and later in Fairhope, Alabama where he died in 1971.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m324.htm?m324text.htm~mainFrame
This information is from the Mississippi Room in the library at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Kevin now your book will be in that room along with all the other Mississippi writers. Did you know that Maxwell Bodenheim was from Hattiesburg?
Read some of the letters by PD East that are linked on here and see what that man who stayed in Miss. had to put up with. And it wasnt much better in Fairhope either. Most all of his subscribers to the Petal Paper were northern liberals. It was an interesting time to say the least. There is a building on the campus at the University of Southern Mississippi named after an English prof who was a teacher and mentor to PD East. His name was Wilbur White Stout. He taught at USM for 30 or 40 years in the English Dept. and was a legend in his own time. He taught me and many many others the joys and value of literature. He had been at North Carolina with Thomas Wolfe(the orginal one)and Paul Green and The Carolina Playmakers in the 1920s.
Here is a PD East quote, ” Love your enemies it makes them so damn mad”.

]]> by: towel head http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-232 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:48:51 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/03/26/a-ps-to-the-letter-below/#comment-232 I should be sleeping. Who is this Kevin man? The hurt Mississippi once wrapped you in now learns from you. You have multiplied hope. When one man can cause another to think... my words are like rocks in my head, sleep well. You're a new leader, Kev I should be sleeping. Who is this Kevin man? The hurt Mississippi once wrapped you in now learns from you. You have multiplied hope. When one man can cause another to think… my words are like rocks in my head, sleep well. You’re a new leader, Kev

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