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. […]
Walking Back Time
By KATIE TIMS Modern-day hunter-gatherers of artifacts are helping preserve the Delta’s history This man walks back a thousand years, almost every day. Out the front door and down a path straight into long ago, John Meek traverses a vast timeline—weather permitting, of course. “In the season I walk eight or ten […]
Lee Harper—Meticulous and Mesmerizing
By SUSAN MARQUEZ • Photography by LOGAN KIRKLAND and courtesy of the artist Miniaturist Lee Harper has captured the essence of some the Delta’s most treasured places with uncanny detail and accuracy The world of Lee Harper is magical and miniature. Her artwork consists of perfect scale models of treasured places in Mississippi, […]
End of an Era
By SARAH FOWLER • Photography by JOHNNY JENNINGS After a century, Lusco’s was more than just Greenwood’s oldest restaurant—for many, it was the centerpiece of family celebrations and rites of passage They came by the dozens. Gathering by the front door of a beloved restaurant that was established long before many of them […]
Team Tracking
By KATIE TIMS • Photos provided by CHAD SMITH When it comes to finding deer, Chad Smith’s dogs are on the job. Last season, a guy named Si bagged better than one hundred deer in the Delta. It was a good go but nothing out of the ordinary for this dedicated hunter. He’s been […]
CARE-ing in Clarksdale
By PAIGE DAUGHERTY • Photos by AUSTIN BRITT Shelter built with passion and compassion is bettering animal welfare in the Delta Deep in the Mississippi Delta, past the cotton fields and juke joints of Clarksdale, sits the little shelter that could. CARES (Clarksdale Animal Rescue Effort and Shelter), the nonprofit organization where I […]
EUPHUS RUTH
By SUSAN MARQUEZ • Photography by RORY DOYLE Photographer uses antiquated photography techniques to capture images of obscure subjects and modern-day ruins Since he was a young teen, Euphus Ruth (“Butch” to his friends) has been interested in photography. “I used to play with my Brownie camera under the living room couch,” he recalls. […]
Back to Bentonia
By JIM BEAUGEZ The Black Keys return to their roots with Delta Kream, a tribute to their Mississippi Delta and Hill Country heroes Not long after his marathon thirteen-hour drive from Akron, Ohio, ended in Greenville, Mississippi, in the late 1990s, Dan Auerbach ran out of a downtown café without even touching the […]
Free Birds
By JIM BEAUGEZ • Photography by GREG CAMPBELL Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the biggest rock ‘n’ roll bands in America. Then the unthinkable happened. Southern rock ‘n’ rollers Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose iconic songs “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Free Bird” have become cross-generational anthems, were riding high in October 1977. The addition of Steve […]