Stored, Stacked and Streamlined
EDITOR’S NOTE: Featured last year in our January/February 2020 issue, these tips are worth resharing to assure an organized 2021! Memphis duo gives tips for organizing the after-holiday chaos and a checklist to kick off the New Year The best business ideas almost always involve solving a problem. And better yet, some of them are […]
Exploring the Ghost Signs of Greenwood
By Liza Jones • Photography by Johnny Jennings Before the construction of the Highway 82 bypass, downtown Greenwood was an important route into and out of the Delta. The businesses there were in a prime position to make the best of it, so it was a bustling, thriving hub of marketing, commerce, entertainment, hospitality, and […]
Jimmy Duck Holmes and the Blue Front Café
The Sound of the Bentonia Blues By Hank Burdine Jimmy “Duck” Holmes ain’t got the blues…he sings the blues, and he brings the blues to folks from all over the world. His Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Mississippi, is known worldwide as possibly the oldest operating juke house in Mississippi, or anywhere else for that […]
A Hero Turns 100 – The Amazing Life of Joe Barnes
By Katie Tims • Photography by Rory Doyle Joe Barnes was a farmer’s kid from the Mississippi Delta. He wanted to teach children, build a family, and make a decent wage on the outskirts of the Great Depression. But World War II intervened. Barnes shipped off to basic training and joined the 36th Combat Infantry. […]