MENDENHALL, Miss. (WJTV) – Johnny Knight, who lived in Mendenhall, was brilliant by all accounts. He passed away many years ago, but among his talents was that he could see things that you or I might consider useless and find grand uses for them.
His painting Johnny Knight’s Seclusion features his treehouse. The real treehouse has a foundation of cypress trunks.
His niece, Gloria Lucas, owns the treehouse today. She said it grew from the ground up when Knight happened across a useless stash of cypress tree trunks…