mississippi delta

Driving through so just some thoughts. There is a lot of cool scenery from the trees and swamps. Pretty peaceful driving. Good people along the way.

Go with your car to the farthest point of the delta road when a sign stops you from driving further. Turn your car around and drive back direction until you reach the first decent restaurant or bar. Ignore the huge oil spill signs installed by law firms. Buy yourself a pincher or two and think about how this area would look like if it would be a national park. There goes the blues, babe.

If you choose to take a scenic delta drive try highway 1 from a little outside Lula ,MS down to Greenville, MS. The area is unique and one can see from the washed in black dirt why the delta is a fertile area. There are only smaller towns on the route.

I grew up in the Delta and don't think I fully appreciated how special it was until we moved away.Miles and miles of beautiful lush green fields. Laying out flat before you as far as the eye can see. In fall, when the cotton is about to be harvested, it looks like snow! Lots of opportunity to hunt and fish and generally enjoy the outdoors. A slower pace of life reflected best in its people. They are more friendly and hospitable than anywhere else in the world. They are musicians, writers and artists. They take time to see beauty in simple things. And they celebrate anything and everything. With food & drink from recipes handed down from their mommas. Served and savored in grand style whether on paper plates or silver & china. If you visit, understand that the Delta isn't a town, it's an area from just south of Memphis down to Yazoo City & from the Mississippi River east for some sixty plus miles. Lots of little towns that used to be plantations. With no hills. Be ready to slow down, speak to everyone and enjoy.

There is nothing like the Mississippi Delta. Most unique place on the face of the earth. Beginning at the mighty Mississippi River and including the most wonderful restaurants and food and Blues music ever!

I purposely took secondary roads and drove into each town to look around. I loved the fertile lands, the smell of the air and the people and food.

People talk of going into The Delta, not to a particular place there, because The Delta is like no other place on Earth. My wife and I discovered Clarksdale in 2005 and have been exploring The Delta since. It is an archeological experience with a culture like nowhere else. The people, white and black, are wonderful. We love the Blues, the Blues musicians and the Blues juke joints which are centered in Clarksdale. The music drew us there but the history is the most fascinating aspect of The Delta. Cotton, segregation, floods, flood control, greed, prejudice and the need for cheap labor to farm the richest soil on the planet had the most profound influences on The Delta. Today The Delta is a history lesson, deep in recession for most inhabitants with the planters still on top of the social ladder. Start your visit in Clarkdale and expand your experience from there. You will not be disappointed.

i was listening to Eurdora Welty's "Delta Wedding" as we drove through this country that was it's setting. On the wall of the B.B. King museum, I loved seeing a quote from the book that compared the long straight rows of the cotton fields with a breeze blowing through them to a stroked guitar!!!

The place I have grown up. My favorite place in the whole world.

The Delta is fascinating if you like history and the American Experience. It is run-down and a living example of the economic forces that have wrought wrenching changes in American society during the 20th century. If you like architecture, there are hundreds of little towns, country stores, rural churches, and deserted mansions to photograph. The people are invariably friendly. Highly recommended for the thinking type of traveler.

The Mississippi Delta is NOT located at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Delta stretches from Memphis, TN to Vicksburg, MS. The Delta is located about 300 miles north of the mouth of the river which is located at New Orleans, LA. And has an elevation of around 130 feet above sea-level. There are not any mangrove swamps here. There are some cypress swamp regions. But not any mangrove swamps.The reason I know this is because I was born in Greenville, MS. Lived there for 40 years. And now reside in Greenwood, MS which is located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta at the foot of Choctaw Ridge. It is where the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Rivers converge to form the Yazoo River.The Mississippi Delta was at one time the mouth of the Mississippi River. But that was eons ago. Probably before there were any human inhabitants in the region. The Delta is a flat region of very fertile farm land.You will not find "sub-tropical" animals here either. You will find deer, raccoons, armadillos, snakes (cotton-mouth moccasin, copperhead, rattlesnake), squirrels, ducks, geese, hawks, eagles, turkeys, turkey vultures, alligators, bears, bobcats, cattle, horses, rabbits. Many of your typical woodland creatures.Most of the vegatation you will find will be cotton, corn, soybean, natural forests filled with pine, oak, cottonwood, cypress, magnolia, sycamore, as well as many other species of trees. Oh, and poison ivy.Our number one commodity is heat. But as they say, "It ain't the heat, it's the humidity". A 90 degree day, with 90 to 95 percent humidity is typical during late spring through early summer. When you step outside it feels like somebody wrapped a warm wet blanket around you. Somedays you can almost feel the water hanging in the air with your hand. Then, in late summer, the humidity drops to around 30 to 40 percent and all you are left with is -- HOT.I recently enjoyed a trip the the desert southwest and the Grand Canyon. The 100+ degree days there felt like a cool breeze.The winters int the Delta are cold. We do not get a lot of snow. But we do get our share of ice and sleet. Our winters are wet and humid which makes the cold feel much colder. When we do get snow, it is a heavy wet snow. Not the fluffy powdery stuff you see on TV. I had a roommate in college from New York, who used to complain that the winters in the south are much colder that the winters in New York. He had a difficult time adjusting to the climate.

La strada 61 che costeggia il Mississippi verso il Golfo del Messico, attraverso Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez é una terra piena di storia, cultura, cibo e soprattutto musica. Blues, Soul, Gospel e Jazz sono qui di casa e ne avete la prova anche con performance estemporanee nei bar, in strada, nei festival. É una terra da scoprire ed apprezzare, in tutte le sue espressioni.