A Breakfast At Rossville
Rossville, Tennessee, in Fayette County, was once called Lafayette Depot, but there was another Lafayette in Middle Tennessee, so sometime during Reconstruction, the town was …
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Haute Cuisine and Hill Country Blues at Home Place Pastures in Como
Home Place Pastures was originally founded in 1869 or 1871, depending on the source, as a cotton plantation in the wilderness east of the railroad …
A Sunny Afternoon in Memphis
After a breakfast at the Brunswick Kitchen at Brunswick near Lakeland, I decided to spend the afternoon putting up flyers for the R. L. Boyce …
Books Coffee and Blues in Greenwood
Part of my plan when I decided to go to Vaiden to take pictures on a Saturday afternoon was to try to make it to …
A Void in Vaiden
Vaiden, Mississippi is a town on Highway 51 in Carroll County, and since 1873, the county seat of the second judicial district of that county. …
Experimenting with the Petri 2.8 Color-Corrected Super Rangefinder Camera
Although I have spent most of my life working with electronic cameras, both during the film era and since the advent of DSLR cameras, I …
Thacker Mountain Radio At the Neshoba County Fair
Sherena Boyce had told me that her father R. L. Boyce was scheduled to perform live on the Thacker Mountain Radio show at the Neshoba …
Honoring Willie “Po Monkey” Seaberry: A Man Whose Juke Joint Helped Define A Town
It was kind of a rough day, actually. David Kimbrough Jr, son of the late Junior Kimbrough had died on July 4th, and was being …
A Friday Evening In Como
I had a vacation day from work, and early in the day, I saw a Facebook post from my favorite coffee brand, Southern Coffee Services …