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“Sunday Morning,” oil on canvas, Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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McCarty’s Gallery Restaurant by Deborah Fagan Carpenter
Food Scene
State of the art dining is what guests may expect at the Gallery Restaurant. Just as the McCarty Pottery Barn is a well-kept secret, so too, is their dining offering, which was established by Lee McCarty to give his pottery shoppers … Continue reading
Posted in Deborah Carpenter, Food
Tagged McCarty, Mississippi, mississippi artist, Mississippi Delta, southern artist, southern culture, The Delta
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How The Delta Came to Be by Tom Lawrence
Scenes from History
The great alluvial flood plain known as the Mississippi Delta begins just south of Memphis, Tennessee and extends to just north of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Delta is nestled between the Mississippi River on the West and the chain of hills … Continue reading
Posted in History, Tom Lawrence
Tagged delta history, Mississippi Delta, mississippi history
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Driving on a Gravel Road by Tom Lawrence
Scenes from History
If you learned to drive in the Mississippi Delta before 1960 you learned on gravel roads. Mississippi had a very good system of concrete highways that connected all parts of the State. No responsible parent would allow their twelve year … Continue reading
Posted in Good Stories, Tom Lawrence
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McCarty Pottery by Deborah Fagan Carpenter
Word of mouth is apparently all they need to draw a crowd. Without any signage, who would guess that behind the weathered Delta Cypress wall, surrounded by thick bamboo, one would find an amazing art environment created by Merigold, Mississippi … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Deborah Carpenter
Tagged ceramics, marigold mississippi, mccarty ceramics, mccarty pottery, mississippi pottery
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Mississippi Tamale Trail by Mary Prater
Growing up, I never knew that what I called a “hot tamale” wasn’t a food born and bred in Mississippi. The Delta Hot Tamale was as much a part of my southern upbringing as college football on Saturday and church … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Mary Prater
Tagged Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Hot Tamales, The Delta
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Royal Ambassadors Part 1 by Tom Lawrence
Tom Lawrence has written an entertaining collection of short stories about the adolescent life of boys in the Mississippi Delta circa 1950. These tales are colorful depictions of a past, but not forgotten era full of innocence and southern soul. Tom … Continue reading
Posted in Written With a Southern Accent
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An Interview with Deborah Fagan Carpenter by Tom Lawrence
This first interview for PorchScene.com features Memphis artist Deborah Fagan Carpenter. I commissioned Deborah to create the dust cover for my book of short stories that was published in April of 2011. I have owned one of Deborah’s major paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Tom Lawrence
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The Mississippi Delta by Mary Prater
Think hot. No, hotter. Think the sun brightly cutting through humidity high enough to stop most sunny days from happening. Hot humidity. Can you feel the oppressive heat closing in on your body? Your lungs are working now to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South
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“Sunday Morning,” oil on canvas, Deborah Fagan Carpenter