The Boston Globe, July 29th, 1997
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- It is not unusual to find in the small towns of the South at least one wealthy family, cultured beyond local bounds and possessed by a sense of noblesse oblige, and in the Mississippi River port of Greenville, the Percys approached aristocracy. Since the Civil War, the Percy family has produced generations of talented writers and influential statesmen, progressive by Mississippi standards and exuding the power of America's most fertile farmland. The first William Alexander Percy helped calm 19th-century lynch mobs, fought to restore home rule after Reconstruction, and serv...
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