Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Bland, who worked on the story in New York City with Contributor Jay Cocks, found herself recalling one of the more memorable weddings she attended as a guest. "It was at a public park on the banks of the Mississippi in Memphis. The couple hadn't asked the city for permission, so the bride's little brothers got there early to make sure the area was clean." Bland says: "The large-scale weddings popular now are stylish, but they shouldn't have to be costly to be meaningful. They place too great an emphasis on money...
...paralleled the development of the gallant equalizer. Today he is likely to deal with government corruption, financial fraud and environmental threats. "I don't consider my newest book, Barrier Island, as hard-boiled fiction," says John D. MacDonald. "It's about a land scam in islands off the Mississippi coast." The detective story is one of the few fiction forms that deal directly with the seamier side of American life. To improvise on Mencken, himself an American institution no less secure than the one he launched with Black Mask, no one ever went broke overestimating the appetite for that...
...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...
...pity there is not world enough and time enough to go into the whole of it. Mississippi. God love...
...rolling country on both sides of the Mississippi, a low-key picnic atmosphere was typical in many spots, with impromptu bluegrass or pop concerts. In Memphis even Elvis joined up as one fan grabbed the hand of his statue and another his leg. In the farm town of Lonoke, Ark., the throng that had gathered unashamedly shouted out "I love America...