Features

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Sweet Success
The Mockingbird Bakery is downtown Greenwood’s newest and neatest

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Mississippi’s Music Man
Lawrence Welk Show entertainer Guy Hovis, his latest career in politics and how he met and married a Delta girl

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Highway 1 Revisited
One writer. One photographer. Follow their trail and explore the stops along this scenic highway

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Best of the Delta
Special section highlighting the Delta’s best dining, shopping, music and more!

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Lamar Thomas, Sr.
Grammy-nominated songwriter born in Clarksdale and raised in Leland

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Conversations with Bill Eggleston
Maude Schuyler Clay’s interview with the renowned photographer

Departments
20 SHOPPING
Editors’ new fall picks
24 BOOKS
28 PEOPLE
Jacqueline Nassar of Clarksdale
34 ART
Nancy Stone-Streett
81 HOMES
Hunters’ Havens
The home of Beth and David Crowe near Drew, page 102
112 FOOD
Wild Game Dinner with Friends Famous Little Sauces, page 122
126 GARDENS
The Cunninghams of Greenville in their picturesque pattern garden
142 HISTORY
The Great Mule Train Race
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Off the Beaten Path
Q & A
Dr. Donald Zacharias
Events
Recollections
“Who’s Who” Flashback!
Delta Seen
The Final Word
by Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas
ON THE COVER: Wild Boar Sausage Antipasti platter from the Wild Game Dinner menu, page 112 in the Food section. Photo taken at Henry and Jane McCaslin’s river home near Rosedale in July, 2005 by Greg Campbell.