Treks of Greatness, Shades of Grandeur Guided Duck Hunting in the Delta By Hank Burdine “Forever and ever, amen” is the oft-time response when a city slicker asks a hardened old duck hunter how long ducks have been coming to the Delta. Or, as legendary Fighting Bayou duck master Skipper Jernigan relates, “since man’s memory […]
By Cal Trout Photography Courtesy of Besty Schonberger “From the warm window sill the endless fields glowed like a hearth in firelight, and Laura, looking out…felt what an arriver in a land feels—that slow hard pounding in the breast.” – Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding For those of us who love to travel and to hunt,
By Hank Burdine Photography by Melody Golding Danger delivers excitement in the Delta’s woods and swamps. Howard Brent, owner and proprietor of Panther Tract, a 4,600-acre private hunting preserve in Yazoo County that borders Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, is a true Mississippi Deltan with a heart as big as the Mississippi River, from whence
Taylor’s Wonderbird Spirits By Tom Speed Photography Courtesy of Timothy Ivy Mississippi’s first grain-to-glass distillery uses Delta-grown rice. Ancient mythologies are rife with images of majestic birds, a species that symbolized freedom, power, and wonder. The mighty griffin. The phoenix. Native American myths, too, focus on the majesty of our feathered friends. Far removed from
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