Word: indianola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chowing Down. Warmer traditions do survive. In the small Mississippi town of Indianola, there were plenty of home-cooked casseroles and ham and turkey platters at the rehearsal dinner before the May 24 wedding of Ann Delinda Thompson and Kenneth Orlando Thomas, both 25. The food was prepared by friends and neighbors and certified good enough to compete with any catered affair. Even the cake was made locally, although it was the kind of extravaganza that looks like an honors project at a baking school: three small cakes surrounded a central four-layer job, with stairways from level to level...
...Indianola he paid his respects to the crossroads, the spot where the Southern crosses the "Dog" (the interchange of the Southern Railway and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, also called the Yellow Dog, and now the Illinois Central). It was here, legend has it, that W.C. Handy composed Yellow Dog Blues while waiting for a train...