Episode 8: Well Read: "I Believe in the Delta"
A reading from our Road Trips issue
To close out our first season of DETOURS, we are excited to introduce "Well Read"—a series of episodes featuring a reading from one of our favorite stores published in recent issues. For our first, we present Charlotte Jones and Marshall Blevins' collaborative Mississippi Delta road trip adventure, "I Believe in the Delta: A Tour Guide and an Artist Drive Up Highway 61," with writer and historian Charlotte Jones' reading her sections, and Delta farmer David Williford reading Blevins's.
Reading the original article, here:
I Believe in the Delta: A Tour Guide and an Artist Drive Up Highway 61
By Charlotte Jones and Marshall Blevins
Rambling across blues country with one tour guide, one poet, two mules
Read more stories from Jones and Blevins below:
Bring Forth the Fiery, Untamed Steeds
By Charlotte Jones
The lost mule market district of New Orleans
A Mule Fit for a King
By Charlotte Jones
Remembering when mules pulled the Mardi Gras parades
Wanna Get Lost, Wanna Get Found
By Marshall Blevins
Rediscovering childlike wonder at Twelve Oaks
And dive deeper down the Delta rabbit hole with these travel stories from recent issues:
Standing at the Crossroads
By Elizabeth Chubbuck Weinstein
In Clarksdale, the Delta blues meet Southern hospitality.
The Travelers Hotel
By Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Hospitality and the arts—the secret to creative placemaking
A Whirlwind in the Delta
By Chris Turner-Neal
36 hours in the place that loves to write, eat, drink, sing, and talk about itself