Central Park Archives - Delta Bohemian

Mississippi Delta Sunsets Nourish The Soul

August 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi If you follow THE Delta Bohemian®–Poor William, Pontificus Minimus, Chilly Billy–also known as Billy Howell on Facebook, then you know how possessed he is with sharing, via his iPhone camera, the magnificent glory of the evening skies in the Mississippi Delta. Billy snaps photographs. Greg Birdsong, another Delta Bohemian® and native of Clarksdale, […]

Filed Under: Arteests, Front Porch Blues & News, You Can't Get This Shit In New York City ??? Tagged With: Central Park, clarksdale, Delta sunsets, greg birdsong, Marshall Bouldin, mississippi delta, Mississippi Picnic, portrait artist, portrait painter

Mississippi Juke Joint Party in NYC – Guthrie has got it going on!

May 21, 2013 Leave a Comment

(Clarksdale, Mississippi) A random email photo request from a Laura Guthrie with The National Arts Club in NYC jumped out at me. Laura wanted to know if she could use my image of Big George Brock for an invitation to a special Mississippi Juke Joint party in Manhattan. (It’s not every day I get folks […]

Filed Under: Front Porch Blues & News, Watcha Gonna Do Tagged With: big george brock, bill abel, Central Park, clarksdale mississippi, joan vidal, juke joint, laura guthrie, mississippi, mississippi development authority, Mississippi Picnic, national arts club, new york

The Big Dinner on the Ground – Mississippi Picnic in Central Park 33rd Celebration

June 12, 2012 4 Comments

By Guest Bohemian Erickson EB Blakney, Broadcast Journalist and Documentarian with Publisher’s Footnote New York City – PHOTO GALLERY – “Follow your nose, it always knows,” so goes the popular ad jingle. Saturday, as I was standing at the far southwestern reaches of Central Park’s Sheep’s Meadow, I detected the faint, yet distinct aroma of a […]