Harvest Home
By Brenda Ware Jones Photography by Sarah Bell of Selavie Photography Architect Carson Looney, FAIA Interior Designer Ann Parker A love of hunting, and an expanding three-generation family, motivated this Memphis couple to create an expansive, idyllic haven for making memories. Sonia and Rudy Watkins of Memphis had been enjoying many a fruitful Mississippi Delta […]
A Most Unusual Collector
By Andrew Ross Photos courtesy of Davies Manor Association Research Assistant Kim Fleischhauer and Robert Jordan of Ole Miss Communications The Forgotten Story of Julius Augustus Davies The writer David Cohn may have pinpointed a figurative truth when he famously claimed the Mississippi Delta begins in the Peabody’s lobby. Literally, of course, he was about […]
Remembering Memphis and The Peabody
By Dr. Lee Owen January/February 2018 It has been a long time since I was a young boy on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta. One of my special memories is of trips up Highway 61 from the Mississippi Delta to Memphis and The Peabody Hotel. Back then the highway had two lanes and […]