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We went to Memphis on the day before the conference ended. Even though Memphis is not in the Delta it is, for all intents and purposes, the Delta's metropolis. Many of the people who escaped the Delta during the Great Migration never got further than Memphis. Parts of Memphis look like the Delta too, only urban, especially in terms of poverty.
We had some soul food for lunch in Memphis that I can’t entirely recommend. I ...
The Arrow on the Door Post
Our best day of the conference, at least academically, was the day that we spent on Emmett Till. In fact, we began the day with a trip to Mound Bayou, which was a kind of autonomous black community set up by a planter that had been inspired by Robert Owen's philosophy. Evidently, it was once a thriving community, but it now seems afflicted with many of the problems that affect the rest of the Delta.
After lunch, we focused on Emmet Till. I ...
South Country Blues
I finally found some people who wanted to do something after classes. Up to this point, the conference was split between people who immediately wanted to go to bed, and guys who wanted to drink a few back in the dorms. No offense to those guys, but I need a bit more than that at this point in my life.
But before that, we were taken out to Dockery Farms, the old huge plantation where Charlie Patton and Son House had worked as ...
Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
I should say that not all the Delta is what I described in the last entry. Cleveland, for instance, seems like a rather prosperous town, perhaps because of the college. So, there is more going on down here than multi-generational poverty.
Today was the "there are people other than black and white people in the Delta." The two most prominent groups, that occupied a kind of middle ground in the Delta, were Jews and Chinese, who operated ...
Down in the Flood
We took a bus out to see the levee break point. The levee does not hold back the water all the time, like you would imagine, but just at times of high water. When we were standing on the old levee near the break point, we were hundreds of feet from the river, and that’s inside the new levee. Right now, in the middle of summer, the river is not quite at low water but it’s on its way ...
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