Downtown Clarksdale was a near-seamless integration of the chic pseudo-poverty and actual poverty. Down near the Delta Blues Museum, a dull redbrick building with green awnings that I would have taken for a retirement home were it not for the unassuming sign out front, there was nothing much around but a railroad spur, where ferns [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Clarksdale’
Blues town
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Clarksdale, Delta Blues Museum, Mississippi, poverty, tourism on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New junk
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Clarksdale, Hopson Plantation, junk, Mississippi on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The vintage-model mechanized cotton picker sitting on the front lawn of the Hopson Plantation at the edge of Clarksdale, Mississippi looked like a heap of scrap metal that might have been carted off to the dump if anybody cared enough to bother. Its rust-orange frame resembled that of a primitive tractor, amended with a cage [...]
