Delta Business Journal Features Delta Bohemian Billy and Madge Howell We are very grateful to Delta Business Journal (DBJ) and to writer Becky Gillette for recognizing us as “Ambassadors for the Delta.” Chilly Billy and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation with Becky and appreciate her inquisitive interest in who we are and what we do. […]
DBJ Profiles Seven Delta Women in Business
July 1, 2019 7 Comments
The Delta Business Journal’s June 2019 Cover Story features seven Delta women in business. Madge Howell, co-founder of The Delta Bohemian®, is honored to be included in the article along with Mississippi Gift Company owner Cindy Tyler, Gainspoletti Financial Services advisor Brandyn H. Skeen, Sherman’s Restaurant owner Allison Nimrod, Baxter Healthcare Corporation Cleveland site director […]
Delta Bohemian and CLARKSDELTA T-Shirts
May 4, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Bohemian® and CLARKSDELTA T-Shirts Back in stock! Our First Edition Delta Bohemian T-Shirts were first introduced in 2011. This is a super comfortable, military green/hemp colored, pre-shrunk t-shirt with Delta Bohemian® across the front. We have been told by many this is their favorite t-shirt ever! The brands we use are Authentic Pigment and […]
Coen of My New Orleans captures the Mississippi Delta
May 4, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE New Orleans, a destination for millions of travelers worldwide, is talking about the benefits of “Traveling the Mississippi Delta: A land of myths and legends.” Cheré Coen with myNewOrleans.com wrote a fascinating article about three of our towns, Greenwood, Indianola and Clarksdale, and touched on the mystical points in between, the back roads, […]
Magic Johnson
November 5, 2014 4 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi A RADIOLAND AUDIO VIDEO Hey Man, I don’t have much of a jump shot but I can shoot the eyes out of a free throw, still leaving me shorter than NBA legend Magic Johnson. However, everybody’s johnson possesses a little magic.
A couple of Bohemians get the Media Award!
October 10, 2014 1 Comment
By Guest Bohemians JOHN RUSKEY and DANIEL VASSEL Email from John to Madge, September 30, 2014
Matagorda Dringling
September 5, 2014 9 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi Recently, I had the privilege of taking a covey of local ladies, superbly seasoned with intellect, on a Delta Bohemian® Back Road Excursion. Identities can’t be revealed as they might eviscerate me with a literary quill, and I hate when that happens! These grand dames must and will remain anonymous!
Celebrating Unity and Diversity in the Mississippi Delta
August 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!” — Psalm 133:1 The initial Delta Bohemian® tagline: Celebrating the Constancy and Diversity in the Mississippi Delta is still real, true, and spot on, but we are changing Constancy to Unity! Why?
Planes, Trains & Tractors in the Mississippi Delta
August 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) The Mississippi Delta ain’ short on modes of transportation and if a seminal sojourner is quick with the iPhone, usually from a moving vehicle, then short, serendipitous captures can make for delightful Delta scenes. Recently, within a couple day period, I was fortunate to capture a plane, a train […]
DELTA MAGAZINE – It’s all about the Delta
July 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Let Poor William tell you about the love our Delta Bohemian® Excursions recently received from Delta Magazine in the July/August 2014 issue. Editor-in-chief and founding editor Melissa Baker Townsend, Photographer Jay Adkins and Writer/Teacher Boyce Upholt invested some time in Clarksdale with Poor William and Magical Madge and we all had a very good […]
High School Honor Students Visit Clarksdale, Mississippi
July 17, 2014 1 Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) No two days alike, no two days the same. Clarksdale Mississippi, much-heralded birthplace of the blues, rarely belies its organicity. The ephemeral nature of the MS Delta, which often appears non-transitory to the uninitiated, beckons the curious with a whisper heard the world over. While giving a Delta Bohemian Pedicab […]
ClarksdaleInfo & DELTA BOHEMIAN® On Same Page
July 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE CLARKSDALE, Mississippi We believe in celebrating Clarksdale and the Mississippi Delta, both its diversity and its constancy. However, we lean toward the unconventional. You just never know what you are gonna get. See Snow Odyssey. Our Delta Bohemian® Subscribers (see green subscription box on right hand column to Subscribe – hint hint) and followers on our Facebook […]
The Mississippi Delta is for Killin’ Snakes
June 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO During the summer, I chop! I chop weeds and I kill snakes—both kinds—real and unseen in the Mississippi Delta! One cannot chop weeds in row crops next to the proverbial and always present turn row canal and be too afraid of snakes. Canal is a bit of a stretch in […]
My Cup is Full, Not Half Anything
June 13, 2014 1 Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO My cup is full, not half empty. My cup runneth over! Sadly, I seldom recognize it. One of the hardest things in this Dad’s and most non-custodial parent’s lives is watching the time approach for our children to go home from a visit. As Madge can attest, I become a […]
Maven in Coahoma May and Love Delights
May 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Not only does she have the ability to take just about any object and turn it into something beautiful with a gift unlike one I have ever witnessed, she delights with her words, too. This month of May has Marilyn Trainor Storey, aka The Maven in Coahoma and the MS Design Maven, […]
Lightnin’ Strikes at a Shack Up Inn Wedding
April 24, 2014 1 Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi — VIDEOS and PHOTOS in post Steve “Lightnin’” Malcolm, famed Hill Country blues musician and Clarksdale and Shack Up Inn favorite, got all hitched to Bernikki Lewis—Big Momma Yolanda Hurt’s baby girl—on Friday during Juke Joint Festival Week on the grounds at the Shack Up Inn. Who’d a thunk Lightnin’ would have […]
Cyber Weekend Delta Bohemian T Shirt Hullabaloo!
November 29, 2013 Leave a Comment
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) It’s what you have been waiting for all year! Our yummy 100% Egyptian cotton Delta Bohemian T Shirts are on sale Black Friday through midnight on Cyber Monday. Only $11.99 each! ➜DISCOUNT APPLIED at CHECKOUT! CLICK HERE FOR SALE ITEMS Sorry, no gift wrapping available. We highly encourage comments and sharing to your […]
Happy Birthday Delta Bohemian Guest House!
August 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
by Marilyn Trainor Storey – The MS Design Maven (Clarksdale, Mississippi) MY DELTA: Art in the City Apartment, Happy Birthday Delta Bohemian Guest House! It is no secret, I spend a lot of time in Clarksdale, in the Mississippi Delta, my birthplace and home of The Blues. I first blogged about Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 2011 […]
Trivia Night at the Stony Pony on Nine-Eleven
August 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) The Delta Bohemian® is hosting another night of trivia at the, what did a visiting New Zealander call it, Stony Pony in Clarksdale Wednesday, September 11, 2013 beginning at 7:00-7:30. If you have never attended, we think now is the time if you are able. CATEGORIES for TRIVIA NIGHT: Nine-Eleven, Terrorism, and Signs & Wonders […]
DB Trivia Night at Stone Pony August 7th. It’s all about the Delta.
August 6, 2013 Leave a Comment
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) Delta Bohemian Trivia Night at Stone Pony Pizza! August 7th. Y’all Come! The Delta Bohemian will be hosting its third monthly trivia night tomorrow at Stone Pony Pizza on Delta Avenue starting soon after 7pm. Categories you ask? DELTA BOHEMIAN, MISSISSIPPI DELTA, and DELTA BLUES! Poor William never was a trickster when he taught […]
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