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(662)332-5038

825 South Main Street
Greenville, MS 38701

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SINCE 1965
Books for all ages
& interests
invitations & stationEry
crane, jenner, national,
caspari, galison
photo & memory albums
c.r.gibson
journals & address books
caspari, galison, c.r.gibson,
paperblanks, peter pauper
greetings
caspari, laughing elephant,
graphique de france
playing cards
congress, caspari, c.r.gibson
art puzzles
galison, battle road, tidemark
educational
activity sets
klutz, workman, peter pauper
ryland peters, and more

gift certificates
free gift wrap

Artists
&
photographers

Becky Wasson Watts
Photography

Euphus "Butch" Ruth
Photography

Paul Canonici
Collage Painter

Mary Bertoli
Paper Collage Artist

Area Artisans

David Linden
Woodturner

Mary Dayle McCormick
Beadcrafter

Local musicians' CDs
Steve Azar
Eden Brent

Boogaloo Ames
Jessica Brent

Meridith Virden

James "Son" Thomas

Jay Lang

DVD's

Walt Grayson
looking around mississippi
series

Eden Brent's Mississippi No.1
MISSISSIPPI NO.1
IS
NUMBER ONE!

HIGHWAY 61:
HEART
OF THE
DELTA
CALL FOR SIGNED COPIES

Want a little info
on Greenville's old
"Yellow Fever" cemetery?
Here's a link to a video
from Ann Martin's
Delta Traveler series (WXVT-TV) :

Video - WXVT.com

Looking for more information about Greenville Cemetery
on South Main Street?
Try this site:
GreenvilleCemetery index

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Friday, September 12
the photography of
Jane Rule Burdine

introduced by
Steve Yarbrough
edited by
Wendy McDaris

Jane Rule, Steve & Wendy sign
DELTA DEEP DOWN
Friday, September 12
4:00 - 5:30

DELTALOGY Deltalogy? Yes, and as far as we know, we invented the term, deltalogy (some wordsmiths want to spell it deltaology but it's our word and we can spell it the way we say it). We needed a catch-all word to describe the growing category of nonfiction and fiction books about the Mississippi Delta or by Deltans.
Greenville's own David Cohn wrote in his book, God Shakes Creation (1935), "the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg." This flat, fertile, alluvial expanse extending fifty miles east from the Mighty Mississippi to the Yazoo River, running from its northern point along the bluffs of Memphis, one hundred fifty miles south to the hills of Vicksburg is the land of the Delta.
PHOTO: BECKY WATTS	From ancient mound builders to blues culture, and the rise and fall of the rivers, and from agri-business to casino gaming, the Delta continues to capture the attention and imagination of folks around the world.
The Delta is a place; a melting pot of people; a mythology and a reality. And we need a word for it all: deltalogy.

Our basic Deltalogy recommendations in no particular order:
*Lanterns on the Levee*	*Blues From the Delta*
*Where I Was Born & Raised*	*Gourmet of the Delta*
*Trials of the Earth*	*This Delta, This Land*
*Forgotten Time*	*The Celestial Jukebox*
*Worse Than Slavery*	*Barefootin'*
*The Delta Italians*	*Rising Tide*
*Where Main Street Meets the River*
*The Most Southern Place on Earth*
*Separate But Equal*
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	NEW PUBLICATION A Delta Diary Amanda Worthington's Civil War Diary edited by Troy Woods

To see a five minute video of vintage footage from the Great Flood of 1927 produced by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, click on Master of Emergencies.
The download time is lengthy but worth it. We recognize most of the footage as being from Washington County, including the break at Mound Landing and a shot of Will Percy with V.P. Herbert Hoover.
WA Percy on levee 1927

ABOVE & RIGHT: W.A.PERCY WALKS GREENVILLE'S LEVEE IN 1927

The new bridge linking Washington County MS and Chicot County AR is the longest cable-stayed bridge span on the Mississippi River. It's as beautiful as it is an historic achievement. To follow its progress click on www.greenvillebridge.com.

2006 bridge

YOU MAY ALSO VIEW
a short silent film produced by the Signal Corps
of the Mississippi flood of 1927 here: flood

"The Patriot"
bronze
created by
Malvina Hoffman

commissioned by
Wm. A. Percy

Percy family graves
Greenville Cemetery

patriot photos by charles blanks

Sitting at the feet of the Patriot before dusk, reading the final chapter of Lanterns on the Levee, puts this world's never-ending tragedies and absurdities into calm perspective.

in memoriam
March 1994
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April 10, 2008
LINK: GIZMO