Proverbs of Wisdom Concerning Children

The following are from the Book of Proverbs of Wisdom concerning children which may give insight to parents when deciding whether to discipline their children or not to discipline their children. How, when and why go to the trouble and effort to choose to do so. Let’s explore…

Delta Magazine Annual Tourism Issue 2019

DELTA MAGAZINE ANNUAL TOURISM ISSUE 2019 INCLUDES PHOTO GALLERY AND LINKS TO MANY BUSINESSES By Magical Madge Finding the newest Delta Magazine in our mailbox is always a treat and the current Annual Tourism Issue does not disappoint! Publisher Scott Coopwood and Editor Cindy Coopwood have created a gem to cherish and enjoy sharing with […]

Delta Business Journal 2018 Best Of The Best

Delta Business Journal, a monthly business magazine based out of Cleveland, Mississippi, posted an online ballot on their Facebook page and on their website for their Delta Business Journal 2018 Best of the Best. The votes were tallied and the winners were announced and listed in their December 2018 issue.

Expedia Names Clarksdale As The Best Place To Escape In Mississippi

Daily I get a lot of junk mail; I’m sure you do too. But yesterday, while rifling through my emails, I received one I would normally have put in the category of unsolicited. Nope. This one caught my attention. The Subject line read “Expedia names Clarksdale as the best place to escape in Mississippi.”

Bouldin Marley Basic Life Truths

By Magical Madge Here it is, a new year, and I find myself wanting to share something personal…about my father, Bouldin Marley. These are basic life truths taught to me by my father since I was a young girl and throughout my life. They were not preached to me, but taught to me verbally and […]

Seek the Delta Right Next Door

Seek the Delta Right Next Door.  Europeans, Australians, and internationals from all over the world plan and save, sometimes for years, to travel across the ocean to visit and experience the Mississippi Delta. Americans come from the West Coast, East Coast, Northern states and all the way from Florida to Arizona, often traveling long distances […]

The Wineskins new “Shut Me Up Sundance” – A Review

By Magical Madge What’s normal? I know I am not normal. But in this world “we all want something, but something’s never here. We pray. We smoke. We pill. We drink. We dope and we hope. That lights always fading, as we all attempt to cope, beneath the normal sky. Real love goes floating by. […]

“Big J” of Johnson Plumbing in Cleveland, Mississippi

“Big J” Milton Johnson, a salt of the earth Cleveland, Mississippi native loves old school cars. Madge interviews him about his 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air. Second generation business owner is the backbone of the Delta.

Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver Been At It 50+ Years

Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver, Mr. Roosevelt Noah, born in 1946, also known as “Ro” or “Jolly,” knows the streets of Clarksdale like no other. He has been ferrying folks to where they need to go for right at 50 years! “When I first started to driving cabs here in this town, we had about 30-something […]

Delta Plein Air Artists Unite – Charleston, Mississippi

Delta Plein Air Artists unite for the First Annual “Paint the Gateway to the Delta” plein air paint out and exhibition September 6-9, 2017 in Charleston, Mississippi, Tallahatchie County! Any artist or budding wannabe artist can participate. The host, Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort (C.A.R.E.), posted an invitation on their facebook page which said “Come paint with us!” Since […]

Meet Meraki Job Training Program Director Ben Lewis

(VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY) Meraki Job Training Program and Meraki Roasting Company, a new destination go-to in downtown Clarksdale for youth wanting experience in the workforce and for locals and visitors to enjoy and support!

Walk With Me Lord through the Mississippi Delta

Walk With Me Lord! Walk with me. These are words I say and pray often. They come from a Traditional Spiritual song that lives deep within my heart and soul. When I hear Lucious Spiller sing it, I feel

Broadcaster Bill Bowker Fired Up About Clarksdale

By Magical Madge Watch the Video Daedalus Howell interviews the legendary Bill Bowker about his long-lasting radio broadcasting career and his love of blues music and its roots. In their exchange, beginning around minute 13:13, Howell mentions the radio host’s new venture/venue by mentioning “Clarksdale….this is huge!” And they are off!

Why folks come to the Mississippi Delta and Clarksdale

By Magical Madge WATCH DOCUMENTARY BELOW Our good friends Charlie and Henrietta Musselwhite love coming to Clarksdale. We are thankful to spend quality time with them during their visits. Serendipitously, Billy and I were getting some footage for a commissioned promotional Clarksdale blues music video for some clients in Australia and the Musselwhites were happy […]

Richard Grant – Hooked on the Mississippi Delta

By Magical Madge More and more and more semi-fixtures, those who visit the Mississippi Delta over and over and over from far away places, leaving a piece of themselves each time, which nags and perplexes, drawing them back to find whatever it was they left, are taking a blind leap of faith and following that inner voice […]

Aspen Wedding – by Mims Graeber

Publisher notes Holy Matrimony is very personal and intimate. Wedding videos help document but seldom capture the essence of the moment in time. However, I have never seen one like the Aspen : Wedding film Mims Graeber made. The emotion it evokes is authentic and that is rare. The young Mississippi filmmaker gives us a taste of what […]

Classic ROBERT BILBO WALKER at Reds Blues Club

By Magical Madge CLASSIC VIDEO If you have never seen this unique performer, then you need to go to Red’s Blues Club and hear Robert “Bilbo” Walker live, Saturday, September 19, 2015 in downtown Clarksdale. In the words of Roger Stolle, “Don’t miss the wig, suit, duckwalk and one-handed guitar playing.”

Charlie Musselwhite plays blues guitar

By Magical Madge VIDEO IN POST Billy and I relish moments when we get to enjoy meaningful dialogue with others. The two of us rarely run out of things to discuss but we welcome when we can engage in conversation with close friends and/or new friends in an intimate setting. It always blesses us. On such occasions we […]

Surf the Great Mississippi River Flood of 2011 with John Ruskey

By Magical Madge With all these 10-year remembrances going on about the massive, destructive and deadly storm called Katrina, I am reminded of another storm which left it’s mark on some of us here in Northwest Mississippi. It wasn’t that long ago I struggled to sleep at night — I couldn’t get the thought of all that water […]

Delta Roadtrip Links Clarksdale and Helena

By Magical Madge – A Delta Roadtrip is something I have done all my life. Being born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, traveling the highways from town to town is something we grew up doing over and over and over again. During high school, it was what we did when not in school. We […]