Back to Basics
By MARK STOWERS Traditional Bows Keep Hunters Tuned In Technology has invaded every business, sport and hobby with the intention of making something better, stronger and faster and easier to use. But, sometimes that technology takes the participant out of the mix when it comes to repairs and improvement. When compound bows became […]
Raggio Custom Calls
By SHERRY LUCAS • Photography by EDWARD WALL Turning wood and building stories one call at a time. Josh Raggio reaches back for that earliest memory, where a skinny, wide-eyed ten-year-old discovers duck hunting with his dad at Delta National Forest. With no child-sized waders, the smallest adult pair had to do, rolled down […]
A Modern Day Resurrection
Story and Photography by KAREN PULFER FOCHT Something special is happening in a tiny Arkansas town with “big ambition. They believe if they build it, you will come. Rising out of the Mississippi River plain along Highway 61 in the Arkansas Delta, Wilson is a most unlikely oasis. It’s a field of dreams where […]
Leslie Barron — A Study in Contrasts
By ANNE CUNNINGHAM O’NEILL • Photography by TINDALL FARMER Equally inspired by seashells and Chagall, the work of Memphis artist Leslie Barron incorporates serious formality with a generous dose of whimsy. As I sat down with Memphis artist Leslie Barron and talked about her life, I was reminded of the hilarious book by British author […]
Haute Couture in the Delta — Everhope and White Gold
By HANK BURDINE • Photography by NATASHA KERTES “Can you host a high fashion dress designer from Albania, a photographer from Russia and a California model one weekend for a photo shoot?” my sister Jane Rule Burdine asked me over the phone one hot July day a couple of summers ago. “Why, you KNOW I […]
Jake and the Pearl Street Jumpers
By SUSAN MARQUEZ • Photography by RORY DOYLE From the BB King Museum to Dockery to the Delta Supper Club, these Cleveland originals have brought their joyous sounds to iconic venues and events across the Delta for forty-five years and counting. Whether it’s in a smoky club, on a flatbed trailer, at […]
Celebrity Chef highlights Southern food in PBS Series
By Sherry Lucas Photos courtesy of Somewhere South In a region so often identified in black and white terms, award-winning celebrity chef, author and TV host Vivian Howard delves into all the shades in-between to highlight the foods and cultures dotting the Southern landscape. Her new six-part PBS series “Somewhere South” premieres March 27-May 1, […]
A Beautiful View – One of the Delta’s Storied Homes and Architectural Wonders
By Jen Waller Photography by Austin Britt Deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, in a place once known as the “Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt,” there stands a beautiful structure known as the Cutrer Mansion. The building is considered by many to be quite grand, but her story really begins with two […]
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 […]