Delta Sunset in Summer: A Promise for Tomorrow

By Poor William (Clarksdale, Mississippi) As a late-afternoon field rider, I now realize why my father, Roundman, used to ramble tortoise-like down the middle of turn rows checking crops and nervously biting worn fingernails during summer, searching for non-existent rain clouds. I can still smell tobacco, newsprint, and mounds of rotting cottonseed smoldering with moisture […]

Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-24-11

Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-24-11   Watcha Gonna Do in and around Clarksdale/Coahoma County this week? PLUS Enjoy some photos taken out and about last week at Ground Zero‘s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration and Fundraiser for Jonestown Family Center and Curtis Wilkie, author of Fall of the House of Zeus at TURNROW BOOK COMPANY in […]