Bear Hunt Re-Enactment
1902 Bear Hunt In the spring of 2016, a dedication ceremony was held for the Theodore Roosevelt Visitor Center a few miles south of Onward, Mississippi. The location is right on the side of Highway 61 and very close to Smede’s Plantation, where in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt disembarked from an Illinois Central […]
Langdon Clay
Langdon Clay made his initial visit to the Delta in 1971 on a cross country road trip from California to New York with his New England prep school friend, Lloyd Fonvielle. Fonvielle was from Wilmington, North Carolina, but neither he nor Langdon had ever been to the Deep South. They traveled in an MGB convertible, […]
An Englishman In The Delta: How Trombonist Bob Dowell Found His New Home
By Tom Speed This is a story about how a trombone-playing Englishman found his way to the Mississippi Delta and came to call it his home. That Englishman is called Bob Dowell and in 2008, he found himself on a ship setting out from the port of San Diego. The ship would spend a week […]