Church Goin’ Mule
By MARY LEE MCKEE • Photography by ANNA SATTERFIELD Marshall Blevins, creating joy-infused paintings inspired by the blues, the past, and the lowly mule If you sit for very long with the Church Goin’ Mule’s art, or even just a little while, you might find yourself feeling a bit uplifted. Perhaps even hopeful […]
The Delta BBQ Battle
By SHERRY LUCAS • Photos courtesy of ELISE JENKINS and EMMA BOND This series of contests combines fierce competition, family fun, and the best barbecue around Saucy fun. Good-natured ribbing. A competition so keen you can taste it. Slather on enough prize money to whet the appetite for that, too, and you’ve […]
Breathing New Life into a Beloved Family Home
By MARILYN TINNIN • Photography by BRIAN FLINT The best of classic tradition meets a warm contemporary update in this Indianola home renovation The imposing red brick home on the corner of Gresham Street and Catchings Avenue was home to four generations of Greshams. Built by William Pinkney Gresham and his wife, Mamie, in […]
Metamorphosis of the Monarch
By SHERRY LUCAS • Photos courtesy of LINDA HITER Each year when the Monarch butterflies pass through the Delta, traveling thousands of miles from Canada to Mexico, they receive a warm welcome from Linda Hiter of Merigold Linda Hiter was captivated from the moment a Facebook post stopped her scrolling in her tracks. […]
Papa and Piggott
by HANK BURDINE How a small Arkansas Delta town helped change the course of American literature It was cold in Paris in the winter of 1924-25. Ernest Hemingway was living in an apartment with his wife Hadley and young son, John (Jack, aka Bumby), at 113 rue Notre-Dame des Champs. He was eking […]
Crisp, Colorful & Crunchy
By CINDY COOPWOOD and CORDELIA CAPPS • Photography by ANNA SATTERFIELD Four Main-Course Salads for Spring From mixed greens topped with chicken and chickpeas to those finished with steak and asparagus, these colorful salads are filling enough to serve as your entrée, but light and bright enough to suit the arrival of spring. […]
When LOVE Comes to Town
By MARY LEE MCKEE Many of the Teach for America corps members who came to the Delta thought they would stay for only two years. Instead, they fell in love with the region, found their soulmates and planted roots. It’s a beautiful spring day and you’re at a festival, let’s say Juke Joint […]
Lowcountry Oyster Roast
By MARILYN TINNIN • Photography by TIMOTHY IVY This Hernando couple is carrying on a family tradition and forging new memories with family, food, and friends When Natalie and Josh Lynch and their two boys bought their country-in-the-city home in 2013, they knew they would make it a welcome gathering place for family and […]
Bobby Rush
Written and photographed by KAREN PULFER FOCHT A musical journey well-travelled He sings about being in love with big, fat women, being henpecked and broken-hearted, about cheating women, chicken heads, and porcupine meat. Entertainer and at age eighty-eight, Mississippi bluesman Bobby Rush will say or do just about anything to make his audience laugh. […]
Inviting, Inspiring, & Unique
By SHERRY LUCAS • Photography by ABE DRAPER With a combination of colors, textures, and media the collection of works in this art-filled home brings interest to every room The collection of original art that enlivens the walls of Lacey and Jeremy Brown’s Indianola home began before they moved in, and even before they […]