Balloon Released for Late North Texas Woman Lands in Mississippi KTEN One of those landed in Mississippi, hundreds of miles away. Released from North Texas, a balloon managed to land in Clarksdale, Mississippi. "They found it in their driveway, 340 miles away," Terry Wood said, Bethany's mother. It was January 20th. |
 Wall Street Journal | Photo-Op: Delta Hues Wall Street Journal Music is inthe blood of the Mississippi Delta. Nowhere more so than Clarksdale, the birthplace of the Blues. The crossroads where Robert Johnson is said to have met the devil is in Clarksdale. Son House's 'Clarksdale Moan' was another legend until a ... |
Clarksdale native Nosef elected Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party Clarksdale Press Register JACKSON —The Mississippi Republican Party has elected Joe Nosef of Jackson as its new Chairman. At a meeting today in Jackson held by the Mississippi Republican Party's Executive Committee, Nosef was elected by a unanimous vote shortly after the ... |
 The National | Immerse yourself in America's history in Mississippi The National From Oxford, we drive on to Clarksdale, a place of pilgrimage for music fans, the epicentre of the sound that became known as the Delta Blues. Out of brutal poverty – the workers in the cotton fields toiled 16 hours a day for a subsistence wage – came ... |
SHSU “Race, Blues, Rock 'N' Roll and the Mississippi Delta” class shows ... SHSU Houstonian Online Strait's cultural geography field class enjoy the porch at Shack Up Inn, on a trip to Clarksdale, Miss. The porch of the Shack Up Inn, on the Hopson Plantation outside of Clarksdale, Miss., is not known in history books for its significance. |
Super Chikan's Blues in the Schools Feb. 20-24 Quad-Cities Online James "Super Chikan" Johnson—a Blues Music Award winning blues musician, artist, educator, and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi—is the artist-in-residence for the MVBS Blues in the Schools program for February 2012. |
Four from Clarksdale arrested for murder Clarksdale Press Register Coahoma County deputies, US Marshals, Bolivar County deputies, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrested Jerry Stewart, 34; Christopher Anderson, 39; and Tresten Chatman, 32 on Tuesday night in Clarksdale. |
MLK Day Shooting Gang-Related Say Police WREG Police in Batesville, Mississippi now say a drive-by shooting last month was a result of gang activity. And it wasn't just any gangs involved. Those involved come from two very well-known groups. A spray of automatic weapons fire killed young Jeremy ... |
Saturday noon is last chance to register to vote in March 13 primaries Picayune Item Roger F. Wicker (R-Miss.) and for the Fourth Congressional district seat held by Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) of Biloxi. Those not registered to vote and who wish to participate those elections, can register at Chimney Square in Picayune and the ... |
'Woody' Zenfell dies; oversaw construction of Arch while fighting to get ... STLtoday.com Mr. Zenfell grew up in Vicksburg and Clarksdale, Miss., where his Lebanese immigrant parents operated a general store. He earned an engineering degree at Mississippi State University before joining the Park Service. During World War II, ... |
