Editing Starkville, Mississippi (section)

==In popular culture==
Pilot [[Charles Lindbergh]], the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, made a successful landing on the outskirts of Starkville in 1927 during his [[Guggenheim Tour]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/gugtour.asp|title=Guggenheim Tour|website=Charleslindbergh.com|access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref> He stayed overnight at a boarding house in the [[Maben, Mississippi|Maben]] community. Lindbergh later wrote about that landing in his autobiographical account of his barnstorming days, titled ''WE.''

Starkville is one of several places in the United States that claims to have created [[Tee Ball]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Tee Ball | publisher = Warsaw Youth Sports | url = http://warsawyouthsports.com/news/teeBall.html | access-date = February 3, 2014 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140221114119/http://warsawyouthsports.com/news/teeBall.html | archive-date = February 21, 2014 }}</ref> Tee Ball was popularized in Starkville in 1961 by W.W. Littlejohn and Dr. Clyde Muse, members of the Starkville [[Rotary International|Rotarians]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Club History | publisher = Starkville Rotary Club | url = http://starkvillerotary.org/about-rotary/club-history/ | access-date = February 3, 2014}}</ref>

[[Johnny Cash]] was arrested for public drunkenness (though he described it as being picked up for picking flowers) in Starkville and held overnight at the city jail on May 11, 1965. This inspired his song "Starkville City Jail":
{{poemquote|They're bound to get you,
Cause they got a curfew,
And you go to the Starkville city jail.}}
The song appears on the album ''[[At San Quentin]].''

From November 2 to 4, 2007, the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival was held in Starkville. At the festival, Cash was offered a symbolic [[Posthumous recognition|posthumous]] pardon by the city. They honored Cash's life and music, and the festival was expected to become an annual event.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20611738 |title=Mississippi town to honor the 'Man in Black' - US and Canada - NBC News |publisher=NBC News |date=September 6, 2007 |access-date=October 21, 2008}}</ref> The festival was started by Robbie Ward, who said: "Johnny Cash was arrested in seven places, but he only wrote a song about one of those places."<ref>''The New York Times'' "Facts Mix With Legend on the Road to Redemption." Barry, Dan. Oct.20, 2008.</ref>

In 2021, a Mississippi Country Music Trail marker honoring Cash was installed in Starkville near the Oktibbeha County Jail.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Tyler B. |date=16 May 2021 |title=Johnny Cash honored with Mississippi Country Music Trail Marker in Starkville |work=[[The Commercial Dispatch]] |url=https://cdispatch.com/news/2021-05-16/johnny-cash-honored-with-mississippi-country-music-trail-marker-in-starkville/ |access-date=3 September 2022}}</ref>

In 2014, [[Gordon Ramsay]] visited the Hotel Chester in his series ''[[Hotel Hell]]'' in a successful attempt to help the struggling hotel remain in business.<ref name="hotelhell">{{cite news|last1=Lucas|first1=Sherry|title=Update: Starkville hotel on 'Hotel Hell' Monday|url=https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/08/07/starkvilles-hotel-chester-hotel-monday/13724803/|access-date= 10 July 2019|work=Clarion Ledger|date= 11 August 2014}}</ref>