The hospitality can be effusive, almost overwhelming, and the food is delicious and more varied than the usual deep-fried clichés. King Cotton sprouted from the fertile farmland that still dominates the region, as did the hard-luck chants of the field workers that evolved into America's original music: the blues.
Visitors flock here from all over the world to soak up the raw authenticity of the South. Don’t be shy to ask the insiders you meet along the way for tips. They're always happy to share, and they will often bend your ear with colorful stories for as long as you've got the time to listen.
Here are some things the locals may tell you about the Delta you didn’t know:
The Mississippi Delta's unofficial capital is in Tennessee
Memphis,
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Louis, came here soon after Freeman's ventures gained national buzz. His Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art store has become a magnet for blues lovers the world over. Stolle is a tireless booster of all things Delta, responsible for starting the Juke Joint Festival and many other music events. On his website, www.cathead.biz, you'll find a detailed calendar of blues-related activities.
Though Madidi closed in 2012, the graffiti-covered former cotton grading warehouse that is now Ground Zero is still hopping and new restaurants and businesses keep popping up. While Ground Zero appeals to the masses (and has some great Southern food, too), blues experts like Stolle can direct you to the few remaining authentic juke joints, such as Red's Lounge a few blocks away.
Po' Monkey's, farmer Willie Seaberry's backwoods sharecropper shack closer to the Delta's center near Merigold, serves beer from a cooler and has a DJ that plays blues and old-school R&B. Plastered with posters and strung with Christmas lights, with a sea of stuffed monkeys hanging from the ceiling, it provides an ambience like no
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The Delta has inspired writers and artists of all genres
The region figures in the works of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and a host of other Mississippi-born writers. Greenville in particular prides itself on its homegrown literary talent: William Alexander Percy, his nephew Walker Percy, who lived with him as a youth after his parents died; Shelby Foote, Hodding Carter, David Cohn, Angela Jackson, Ellen Douglas and Julia Reed.
Willie Morris was raised in Yazoo City and Tennessee Williams spent a chunk of his childhood in Clarksdale, where a Tennessee Williams Festival is held each year.
Several obscure but rewarding museums pay tribute to other notable Delta artists. Mama's Dream World museum in Belzoni shows "picture memories" of rural Delta life hand-stitched by folk artist Ethel Wright Mohamed, whose work has been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution. The Jim Henson Museum in Leland honors the Muppets creator, whose Sesame Street characters are based on the creatures he discovered on the banks of Deer Creek where he once
Outdoor Patio: Committed to creating an authentic feel, this restaurant transforms their patio every weekend into a tailgating experience for everyone who comes. With comfortable seating, full service and Cornhuskers fans all around, you’ll have everything you need to keep your party rolling along.
Many people how the culture of the South and Southern history has shaped and influenced Faulkner’s works. I have
In Bolivar County, Mississippi, stands Mound Bayou, one of the first black towns in the U.S. It is located twenty-eight miles southwest of Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery and his cousin Benjamin T. Green. Both Montgomery and Green were former slaves. They both were formerly owned by Joseph Emory Davis, a lawyer turned successful planter & the older brother/mentor to Jefferson Davis, the former President of Confederacy. The town is a national significance because it represented many towns established by African American who moved from the South to the North after slavery.
This file describes a Tougaloo negro attempting to attend an all-white University of Mississippi. The file was written by the Associated Press. There were three African American males wanting to attend the all-white University of Mississippi. The first male was James Meredith an African American male. James Meredith wanted to attend the University of Mississippi an all-white University but they found ways to stop him from attending. He wanted to attend summer school. He was accepted but he was later withdrawn when they found out his race. The second African America male was Cleve McDowell. He was thrown out of the University for having pistol on campus. He had known Meredith but he would not say if he has talked to the former school about the possibility of attending the school.
a canoe or kayak trip, the Ogeechee Tiver is a great place to spend an afternoon outdoors. Put a boat in one of the many landings or stay along the banks; anyone with a fishing license can fish legally along the banks of public rivers. Find your lucky fishing hole as the river is filled with red breast, suckers, shad, rock crappie, bass, and catfish. Enjoy the scenic views of high bluffs and wildlife as you drift down the river that runs wild across the flat land of Jenkins County. Public access to the river is available at the Bull Hole located in the Herndon Community, Scarboro Landing located at the Scarboro Community just off Highway 17 South, Old
The Okefenokee Swamp is one of the largest swamps in North America and is located in the south eastern part of Georgia.In the Okefenokee Swamp, things look about the same as it did a century ago. Scattered relics found there, remind us of the people who tried to conquer the swamp. The Okefenokee swamp is what it always has been, vast and unspoiled and overwhelming in its wildness. The swamps unfolds itself from miles and miles with no houses or roads or people. Nearly 700 square miles of wilderness. On a foggy morning there is a softness to the Okefenokee.The okefenokee, a black water swamp is one of the largest and most significant wetland complexes in the United States. The Okefenokee’s waters are clear but dark, stained a deep coffee color
The Delta Meat Market and Ellis almost daily result in acknowledgements and recognition including several publications: Garden & Gun's "Back-Road Trip: The Mississippi Delta's Blues Highway" and Delta Magazine's "Delta Charcuterie: Where to Find the Ultimate Cure." Ellis also participated in the 2015 Atlanta Food and Wine Festival Tasting
But, that’s just the beginning of their offerings. They also supply the local area with kegs of craft and domestic beer and have twelve rotating taps on hand for consumption in the shop or in their great beer garden out back. The beer garden is stocked with cornhole and extra-large two by four Jenga, and often visited by Knoxville’s best food trucks. Best of all dogs are welcome. Come have a backyard party with relative strangers and fast friends.
The other places where the you can enjoy to your fullest are Solbar, The Wharf, Mezze Bar, Sails Noosa and the list goes
What separates a group from a community? What separates an individual from a group? The answer is not stereotypes. A black man should not be separated by their color but by their integrity, talents, and capability. Every person is different in their own way. They are molded and shaped by the people that surround them. The community and the place affect how one will grow up. If someone is living in a big city, they will have a different life than one in the country.
The great flood of the Mississippi river in 1927 prompted the severing of class divisions and the extension of racial oppression. The flood caused over $350 million in property damage, 246 flood-related deaths, and a home loss of 130,00. Many african americans fled north to escape the racial oppression that resulted from the disastrous flood. Police held black african americans at gun point until they agreed to help raise the levees to protect buildings and houses from rising flood waters. After African americans started refusing to work, one got shot in the back and all the african americans fled north to escape the hardships that were brought about when the river flooded. After Hoover won presidency, he did not keep his promises to ensure
The community of Pensacola, Florida has one inspiring tight group of people who care as much as they do for each other as much as they do for the outside world. The people of the Pensacola community all have big hearts, big personalities, a great deal of southern class, sass, and plenty of charitable souls. Considering the diminutive size of our town, we pretty much all know each other. Whether you’re out for a night on the town in our historic Downtown Pensacola or just getting your weekly groceries, there's a great likelihood that you'll see some familiar faces, always greeting you with a polite smile and wave.
So let me tell you about the music in Mississippi. If you like Blues, you’ll love Mississippi. I’m from Belzoni and that’s right there in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Everywhere you go just about, if people are playing music, chances are, they are playing the Blues. The Mississippi Delta is where the blues all started. Some of the Blues singers are: Sam Cooke, Marvin Sease all of these musicians are from down in the heartland, from Mississippi. Not only the Blues though, we have Rock and Roll. The greatest Rock and Roll musician to ever live as
The writer and Nobel Prize winner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. His family settled in Oxford when he was about five years old, and Faulkner spends most of his life there. Faulkner was successful early in his life, but during the fifth grade he lost interest in school and started missing classes. He did not graduate from high school, and later on he was able to go to the University of Mississippi in Oxford, but dropped out after three semesters. He is known as one of the most famous Southern literature writers, mostly for his novels and poetry. William Faulkner's literary career was influenced by
I think you’ll like Silvertip, but if not we’ll go someplace else. The club sandwich is really good, it costs like $15, but if you try it you’ll see why as the quality is obviously a notch above of what you would expect in a pseudo dive-bar. The Bake Shop in Girdwood is also great, but they just do breakfast and lunch. Other people like Jack Sprat of Double Musky, but I’m not a big fan of either.