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national
caspari
galison

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albums
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journals & address books
caspari
galison
c.r.gibson
paperblanks
peter pauper
 

greetings
caspari
 laughing elephant
 

playing cards
congress
caspari
c.r.gibson

art puzzles
galison
battle road
tidemark

educational
activity sets
klutz
workman
peter pauper
DOVER
ryland peters
and more

 

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Artists
&
photographers
 

Becky Wasson Watts
Photography

 Euphus "Butch" Ruth
Photography
 

Paul Canonici
Collage Painter

Mary Bertoli
Paper Collage Artist

 

Area Artisans

David Linden
Woodturner

Mary Dayle McCormick
Beadcrafter


Local musicians' CDs

Steve Azar

Eden Brent

Boogaloo Ames

Jessica Brent

Meridith Virden

James "Son" Thomas

Jay Lang

DVD's

Walt Grayson
looking around mississippi
series

*
CONGRATULATIONS
EDEN!

Eden Brent's Mississippi No.1
MISSISSIPPI NO.1
IS
NUMBER ONE!
 

Eden Brent
CAPS

2 Blues Music Awards!


Acoustic Album
of the Year

Eden Brent
Mississippi
Number One

-
Acoustic Artist
of the Year

Eden Brent

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Awards ceremony
May 7, 2009
Memphis Cook Conv. Ctr.

Blues Music Awards: Memphis Commercial Appeal

Want info on Greenville's old
"Yellow Fever" cemetery
?
Here's a link to Ann Martin's
Delta Traveler series
(WXVT-TV) :

Video - WXVT.com

Looking for more information
about Greenville Cemetery
on South Main Street?
Try this site:

GreenvilleCemetery index

McCormick
Book Inn
DELTA STUDENTS' SUMMER READING HEADQUARTERS

HOME PAGE

Have you heard about
Greenville Renaissance Scholars?

The mission of Greenville Renaissance Scholars is to provide an additional path to college for students of the Greenville Public School District.
www.grscholars.org   

See the  Renaissance Weekly June 2009  CLICK HERE

Two 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning authors linked to Washington County, MS!READ ABOUT IT HERE: PULITZERS 2009

Three 2009 MIAL winning authors from Washington County!
SEE THEM LISTED HERE: Reviews

MAKES GREAT SUMMER READING!

DELTALOGY 

Deltalogy? Yes, and as far as we know,  we invented the term, deltalogy (some wordsmiths want to spell it deltaology but it's our word and we can spell it the way we say it).

We needed a catch-all word to describe the growing category of nonfiction and fiction books about the Mississippi Delta or by Deltans.
 

 

 
Greenville's own David Cohn wrote in his book, God Shakes Creation (1935), "the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg." This flat, fertile, alluvial  expanse extending fifty miles east from the Mighty Mississippi to the Yazoo River, running from its northern point along the bluffs of  Memphis, one hundred fifty miles south to the hills of Vicksburg is the land of the Delta.

 

 

 

 

 


PHOTO: BECKY WASSON WATTS

From ancient mound builders to blues culture, and the rise and fall of the rivers, and from agri-business to casino gaming, the Delta continues to capture the attention and imagination of folks around the world.


The Delta is a
place; a melting pot of people; a mythology and a reality. And we need a word for it all: deltalogy.

* recent addition

Our basic Deltalogy recommendations
in no particular order:
Lanterns on the LeveeBlues From the Delta
Where I Was Born & RaisedGourmet of the Delta
Trials of the EarthThis Delta, This Land
Forgotten TimeThe Celestial Jukebox
Rising TideBarefootin'
*A New Day in the Delta
The Delta Italians
Where Main Street Meets the River
The Most Southern Place on Earth
Separate But Equal
 


A Delta Diary

Amanda Worthington's
 Civil War Diary
edited by Troy Woods

To see a five minute video of vintage footage from the Great Flood of 1927 produced by the  Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, click on Master of Emergencies.
The download time is lengthy but worth it. We recognize most of the footage as being from Washington County, including the break at Mound Landing and a shot of Will Percy
with Herbert Hoover.
 WA Percy on levee 1927

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE & RIGHT: W.A.PERCY WALKS GREENVILLE'S LEVEE IN 1927
 

The new bridge linking Washington County MS and Chicot County AR is the longest cable-stayed bridge span on the Mississippi River. It's as beautiful as it is an historic achievement. To follow its progress click on www.greenvillebridge.com.

2006 bridge

 

YOU MAY ALSO VIEW
a short silent film produced by the Signal Corps
of the Mississippi flood of 1927 here:
flood


An Article from the
1997 Festival of American Folklife
Program Book

At Home in the Delta - Deborah Boykin

bottle trees, gardening & cooking in the Delta
with bibliography

 


"The Patriot"
bronze
created by
Malvina Hoffman
 
commissioned by
Wm. A. Percy

Percy family graves
Greenville Cemetery


patriot photos by charles blanks

Sitting at the feet of the Patriot before dusk, reading the final chapter of Lanterns on the Levee, puts this world's never-ending tragedies and absurdities into calm perspective.
 



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