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Lee
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CURRENT
ISSUE - JULY 03
Through
the Bamboo
Lee & Pup McCarty’s Delta Oasis
By
Lana Lawrence Draper
Photography by Scott Speakes
Folks who were raised in small Delta towns are used
to giving geographical landmarks as means of direction.
When asked where a certain town or place is, a common
response might often be “It’s not too
far fromGreenville, up 61” or “Go one
hundred miles south of Memphis and try not to blink.”
Interestingly enough, one particular Delta locale
never needed such point of reference. The mere mention
of the town Merigold would elicit the immediate response
of, “Oh…McCartys!” It’s for
good reason that Merigold and McCarty's ring synonymously
in the minds of many Mississippians. A world-renowned
pottery business started in 1954 would quietly put
this tiny town of 600 on the map, as a unique and
thoroughly-Delta landmark.
FULL
STORY
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| An
interview with Eleanor Schnabel |
Mississippi-native
Eleanor Humphreys Schnabel lived and traveled
all over the country and abroad before
she returned to the Delta in 2000, as
director of the Winterville Indian Mounds
north of Greenville on Highway 1. She
is active in the Mississippi Archeological
Association and the Missi-ssippi Museums
Association. Eleanor’s ancestral
roots run deep in American, Mississippi
and Delta history.
Born: Baptist Hospital in Memphis,
TN • Raised: Schlater and Perthshire,
MS, then Oregon, IL • Resides: Cleveland
• Education: B.A. Sweet Briar College,
VA; M.A. Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA
A
lot of people in the Delta may know of
your mother, the late Emma Lytle, as an
artist. What should people know about
her life and work?
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STORY
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Eleanor
Humphreys Schnabel
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Quapaw
Canoe Company
Offering
the Total Mississippi River Experience
by Mark Bird
Dense
green forests where abundant wildlife roams
free. A wide, wild river meandering past
magical islands and glistening sandbars,
rarely encountering the sounds—or
even the signs—of civilization. It’s
the sort of escape which seems ever more
appealing in troubled times, and we travel
hundreds, or even thousands, of miles in
a quest for these idyllic places.
FULL
STORY
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The
Star that fell on the delta
by Jim Fraiser
Most
every boy growing up in the Mississippi
Delta remembers plumbing the depths of their
hometown streams, the rivers that were as
prominent in the Delta as bulging blood
vessels on a weight-lifter's arms.
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