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The Small Town in Mississippi That's Straight Out Of A TV Drama

When I was in middle school, In the Heat of the Night was just "that cop show adults watched after Wheel of Fortune." My friends and I couldn't have explained its themes if you bribed us with a bucket ...
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In the Heat of the Night

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi.
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The Small Town in Mississippi That Feels Straight Out Of ‘In The Heat of the Night'

When I was in middle school, In the Heat of the Night was just "that cop show adults watched after Wheel of Fortune." My friends and I couldn't have explained its themes if you bribed us with a bucket ...
BroadwayWorld

In the Heat of the Night at The Park ThHeatre

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his ...
La Crosse Tribune

Land near Sparta added to Mississippi Valley Conservancy

With the protection of 88 acres of land in Monroe County in April, Mississippi Valley Conservancy now protects more than 21,000 acres in its efforts to conserve native habitat, farmland and scenic ...