Lisa and Randy Dickerson were being hospitable when they invited us to lunch and/or church in McComb, Miss. I had a better plan: Visiting the swamp land where the Southern rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, crashed on Oct. 20, 1977, when their plane ran out of gas. The band was minutes away from Baton Rouge, where they were to perform at LSU.
Column: Lynyrd Skynyrd, part two — site of the crash