A Playboy Photo Shoot Disrupted by a Dog

Owner of historic Mississippi home recalls canine complications surrounding magazine's first-ever "Girls of the SEC" pictorial.

Inside the September 1981 issue of Playboy magazine, the photo under the article headline “The Girls of the Southeastern Conference – Part 1” offers no hint of the work it took to produce. Two female students, in long flowing dresses, are pictured in front of a Southern mansion, picnic spread and centerpiece ham.

But as Columbus, Mississippi historian Rufus Ward revisits this weekend in local newspaper The Dispatch, there was a lot more to it. Ward spoke to Robert Snow, owner of the historic refurbished Waverly home shown in the photo.

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