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My father talks about Phil Stone and William Faulkner

Here’s a short documentary my daughter Sarah Simonson did for a Southern Studies class. The documentary is about Phil Stone (my dad’s first law partner) and William Faulkner and includes a section of my father talking about Stone and Faulkner. (I’m in there, too). I’m so glad this is on video.

http://www.vimeo.com/7561849 [...]

More News from Yalobusha County: This time, it’s theater criticism

When we last reported Yalobusha County news from the North Mississippi Herald, it was the story “Ambushed Dad Has Questions” (I’ve not followed up on that story). This time, there’s a bit of theater criticism in the Betty’s Week column, which has been reporting (or not reporting– “Sylva Rena Grocery (where there’s usually lots [...]

Out on Highway 61

In Tunica for Chancery Court, we went by the Blue & White Restaurant for the lunch buffet.

The Blue & White was in downtown Tunica by the railroad tracks until 1937, when Highway 61 was upgraded on the edge of town. The Blue & White moved out to the highway, where it was [...]

OKRA ATTACK!

While in Cleveland in the Delta last Saturday, I saw a small banner that suggested I be afraid.

I just encountered this video, which illustrates what folks are supposed to find fearful…

… and discover there’s a whole website devoted to Okra fearing at Delta [...]

Sam Sifton gets cornbread horribly wrong– almost as much sugar as cornmeal?!?

In the New York Times magazine, Sam Sifton writes about the cornbread recipe from Chris Schlesinger’s East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Mass. The recipe contains 2 parts flour to 1 part cornmeal, reversing the ratio I use (because, opines Sifton, if you don’t the cornbread will be “gritty.” Sifton must be using the wrong [...]

I found my April 1st post in Ruleville, Mississippi

They were built in 1920 and 1921, behind the (now abandoned) cotton compress there.

Last year, folks in Ruleville decided the rusty water towers needed painted. They anticipated April 1st by months.

At Dockery Plantation, the real home of the blues

Dockery Plantation, between Cleveland and Ruleville, Mississippi on state Highway 8, was established in 1895. It is and will be historically remembered as a major dissemination point for the blues, at its beginnings. Charley Patton lived there, and a number of musicians who learned directly from him learned there or in that area. [...]

House on Highway 8, just west of Ruleville, Mississippi

Every time I go on Highway 8 between Holcomb and Ruleville, I’ve noticed this building. Today, I stopped and took photos, travelling through the Delta with Joyce, Chris Offut, and Melissa Ginsburg. Melissa noticed that, to one side behind the house, it had a satellite dish.

There has to be a story about [...]

Earl Scruggs has died at 88

Earl Scruggs revolutionized banjo playing while in Bill Monroe’s band in the 1940s, and then, with Lester Flatt, formed one of the greatest country, string, or bluegrass bands of all time. He died at age 88 today.

Here are Flatt and Scruggs, “Rolling in My Sweet Baby’s Arms.”

and “Lonesome Road Blues”

Here he [...]

“You could hear it talk, you could hear it sing.”

Bill Monroe credited as a profound influence his Uncle Pen Vandiver, and wrote one of the greatest bluegrass songs about Uncle Pen’s fiddle playing.

There are no recordings of Uncle Pen, and artifacts from his life are rare. The International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro Kentucky has discovered and is displaying the first two [...]

Dragoman wrote on 10:18 am, May 22, 2012 about Scruggs to Judge Davidson: Decide my petition, because I could be getting out soon.
Sure, Sid, why not? If Steve Patterson is being released back into the wild to run all over Europe, why not you? ..

Anderson wrote on 8:53 am, May 22, 2012 about Scruggs to Judge Davidson: Decide my petition, because I could be getting out soon.
Maybe the district court should continue to sit on it & dare them to seek mandamus. ... I've nothing against quotations, god knows, but their Barclay quote seems to suggest the *court* could as we ..

MikeH wrote on 11:04 pm, May 21, 2012 about RANT about att.net (“Login to server outbound.att.net failed”)
Cableone "migrated" about a year ago and I never have regained ability to send from my Mac and cannot send or receive from two accounts on any CPU. It took an hour plus to get one account working. I c ..

WantedToBeALawyer wrote on 10:48 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
Lacking an open thread I am forced to post this very cool Scale of the Universe link here. ..

DeltaLawMama wrote on 9:53 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
DLM <3's Josh Whedon, but won't leave DLS to stalk him. ..

Anderson wrote on 9:01 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
Shoot, DLM, *I* wouldn't mind growing up to be Black Widow. That was how my summer *started*. (ScarJo is so good in that ... beautifully understates the whole character, her tone of voice, her facial ..

DeltaLawMama wrote on 8:50 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
When I grow up I want to be Black Widow, not TO Ellen Ripley. ..

YourLiesHaveLies wrote on 8:40 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Those countries do need money. That's probably why they allow a convicted felon in. ..

Ben wrote on 8:27 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Sure makes me proud to be an Ole Miss grad. We know how to pick 'em. ..

John wrote on 5:38 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
I sure am glad probation isn't standing in the way of a European vacation. I'm also glad he has the money to afford it. What's he doing now for employment? ..

Anderson wrote on 5:27 pm, May 21, 2012 about Some notes on the possible defenses suggested at Dr. Smith’s preliminary hearing
It's just amusing to me how Hammett slipped in a word that got by both his editors AND the Hollywood censors, and as a result has been "naturalized" with a very different meaning. In effect, Hammett n ..

Ben wrote on 5:19 pm, May 21, 2012 about Some notes on the possible defenses suggested at Dr. Smith’s preliminary hearing
Anderson: I confess to having not read The Maltese Falcon. I can't say with any confidence where I first heard "gunsel" ... lost in the foggy remnants of an old mind, such as it is. Many thanks. ..

Dragoman wrote on 5:00 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Redeemed from Coventry already? And for an alumni trip to Europe? Well, he'll be a fine one to have along. I wonder he's not shunned by the alumni office and everyone else at the University. My God! ..

pr1954 wrote on 4:56 pm, May 21, 2012 about Some notes on the possible defenses suggested at Dr. Smith’s preliminary hearing
AFOTL, just go ahead and say what you mean..."it was all that damn Conway's fault. just grandstanding" ..

Anderson wrote on 4:25 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Maybe Patterson should have to pay to take the parole officer on the trip with him. Those guys work pretty hard, they need a break now & then. ..

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