Art by Marshall Blevins
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.
Well Read: "I Believe in the Delta"
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
Marshall Blevins
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
Library of Congress
"Mule teams and the levee, New Orleans, Louisiana," published between 1900-1910 by Detroit Publishing Co.
A Mule Fit for a King
By Charlotte Jones
Remembering when mules pulled the Mardi Gras parades
Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum, 1978. 118 (B). 07300b
Louis Armstrong as King of Zulu, with his renegade mule pictured.
Wanna Get Lost, Wanna Get Found
By Marshall Blevins
Rediscovering childlike wonder at Twelve Oaks
Marshall Blevins / "Church Goin' Mule"
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.
Photo courtesy of the Clarksdale, Mississippi CVB
The Travelers Hotel
By Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Hospitality and the arts—the secret to creative placemaking
Photo courtesy of Ann Williams.
Travelers Hotel, Clarksdale, MS
The Travelers Hotel—the founding project of Coahoma Collective—holds court as a boutique hotel in the center of downtown Clarksdale, inside a 1920s building which once served as a stopover for railroad workers traveling through town. Today, the hotel employs the creatively inclined in exchange for free housing, encouraging them to pursue personal projects and entrepreneurial endeavors to better the city.
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
Rory Doyle
