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LEON RUSSELL WITH THE SHELTER PEOPLE (Shelter). A high-water mark in Delta rock, by the noted bayou frog and a virtuosic choir of croakers...
SP/4 J.P. CAMPBELL and the men of Delta Company...
...chief of Harper's told about a grownup visit to his tiny home town, Yazoo City, Miss., back in 1967. This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could remember it all that...
When scoffers tell Dave Kilbourne, a 31 year-old Californian, to go fly a kite, he is only too happy to oblige. He flies over them in a delta winged kite that looks like a large version of a child's paper dart. "My family all think I'm nuts," he admits, "but this kite flying, launching yourself off a cliff into a breeze, has got to be the most satisfying thing ever...
...avocation, shared by about 50 adventurous spirits in the San Francisco area, is a new and considerably more dangerous version of the familiar takeoff on water skis. The water skier uses a flat kite, and must remain attached to a boat's towrope, but, theoretically at least, the delta-wing can go anywhere. Kilbourne first saw one being used three years ago by a touring Australian and built a copy of nylon and aluminum. Says Kilbourne: "One day I didn't have much else to do, so I decided to hike up the hill and try the kite...