By: Amanda Brickell Bellows

Amanda Brickell Bellows — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:17:37 +0000

Ryan – thanks for featuring Yazoo City in this very interesting article. The city has a long and rich history of its own, and it has produced writers like Willie Morris (My Dog Skip, North Toward Home), Teresa Nicholas (Burying Daddy), Ruth Williams (Younger Than That Now), Herschel Brickell, the Southern Renaissance literary critic who discovered Margaret Mitchell – and who attended Middlebury’s own Breadloaf Writer’s Conference in the first part of the 20th century, and many others. Check out any of these books, or Harriet DeCell’s Yazoo: Its Legends and Legacies, for more stories about this special place. And be sure to take a look at Willie’s son David Rae’s new documentary project about racial

integration in Yazoo in the 60′s: http://www.davidraemorris.com/YazooRevisited_music.html

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By: Barbara Parker

Barbara Parker — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:07:28 +0000

This is really informative, Ryan. Your research into these less-known corners of America gives valuable insight into the varieties of the American experience.

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