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
46 BOOKS
52 PEOPLE
Frank Carlton of Greenville
58 ART
Barbara Baine of Clarksdale
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HOMES
Comfort & Joy
Decorating for the holidays on Deer Creek, page 102

Yazoo Holiday Tour of Homes
This tour of three beautiful homes in the Yazoo area kicked off a new charitable tradition, page 87
117 FOOD
Booth Dining in Greenwood Vicksburg Holiday Brunch Menu, page 126
132 GARDENS
How to make a Della Robbia Wreath
152 HISTORY
Memoirs of “Mrs. Mary” in Tallahatchie County
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 Off the Beaten Path
Q & A
Mrs. Jewel Younger Graeber
Events
Recollections
The cowboy costume craze inspired by Roy Rogers
plus “Who’s Terri Lee?”
Delta Seen
The Final Word
by Anne Martin
ON THE COVER: An adorable, edible gingerbread house, decorated with an array of sweet goodies, provides a festive decoration for the Nause home in Greenwood. Photography by Scott Speakes.