" A Visit To Oakland & The Mistress of Montaigne"

I thought we'd go back to Natchez today..................
First to Oakland, the former home of Duncan Minor
whom is said to be still present at Oakland................








This will give you a little history.......................

This is the delightful Kate Green............................

Mistress of Oakland.............

This parlour is to your left upon entering...............

I told this tour guide that I was going to write that

she was directing me Not to take her picture!

Upon arrival......................................................................

Duncan Minors bedroom...........................

If you enlarge this photo you will see an interesting

Chandelier............................................

I did not take many photos at Oakland as I was engrossed

by Ms. Green and her daughter telling me stories of Duncan

Minor haunting Oakland..........................I nearly missed my tour bus!

Another interesting story she told me was, how when she married Mr.

Green, in the70s, he owned Glenburnie (Jennie Merrill house) and she

owned Oakland. She did what Duncan Minor had done, every evening

she drove to Glenburnie and returned to Oakland the next morning!








Welcome to Montaigne! Pronounced: Mon ' tain

" Ms. Mary Louise Shields, Mistress of Montaigne "

She told me; " she will be 103 if she lives till September!

She plays bridge twice a week, and told me she had won

.18 cents the day before! She has invited me back to discuss

The Goat Castle Murder...........................

Each house has a front porch greeter in costume

who gives the history of the house..........................

The next day I saw this woman at a different house!

NO inside pictures were allowed at this house.

As you exit to the back porch, you are greeted by Ms. Shields .

She thanks each visitor for coming. I was told that in past years

she presented each visitor with a Rose from her gardens! She has

lived at Montaigne since 1935 when she came there as a young

bride !

I will be returning to both these homes in the near future

to gather information to use in my book............................