OT: MS Delta tour
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It’s pretty desolate this time of the year, without any crops growing. The crops are what makes the Delta unique.
March-May brings a mad dash of planting, while summer brings pretty crops with pivots, planes and poly pipe running and fall brings the most beautiful sites of harvest with combines and cotton pickers running.
Other sit down restaurants not mentioned is the Crown in Indianola, Serio’s , What’s Cooking, and Fran and Johnnie’s in Greenwood , Lillo’s in Leland, the Pharm in Ruleville, and Stafford’s in Drew.
Other quick or convenience type food stores is any Double Quick chicken, Fratesi’s Grocery in Leland, Chuck’s in Rolling Fork, Roy’s Store in Chatham on Lake Washington and Nails in Stewart (not in Delta, but the guaranteed best convenience store steak you will ever eat)
Tallahatchie Flats (north of Greenwood) is a cool place to stay. It’s very similar to Shack up in Clarksdale. There is a B and B on Lake Washington also. Can’t remember the name though. The cabins at Leroy Percy park in Hollandale are also pretty neat.
March-May brings a mad dash of planting, while summer brings pretty crops with pivots, planes and poly pipe running and fall brings the most beautiful sites of harvest with combines and cotton pickers running.
Other sit down restaurants not mentioned is the Crown in Indianola, Serio’s , What’s Cooking, and Fran and Johnnie’s in Greenwood , Lillo’s in Leland, the Pharm in Ruleville, and Stafford’s in Drew.
Other quick or convenience type food stores is any Double Quick chicken, Fratesi’s Grocery in Leland, Chuck’s in Rolling Fork, Roy’s Store in Chatham on Lake Washington and Nails in Stewart (not in Delta, but the guaranteed best convenience store steak you will ever eat)
Tallahatchie Flats (north of Greenwood) is a cool place to stay. It’s very similar to Shack up in Clarksdale. There is a B and B on Lake Washington also. Can’t remember the name though. The cabins at Leroy Percy park in Hollandale are also pretty neat.
My brother got chased by a peacock there when we were kids.
Cleveland is the jewel of the delta due to DSU and a formally good public school system. Unfortunately decreasing in enrollment at DSU and a federal judge destroying the only successful public school in the Delta, Cleveland will go on a slow decline and eventually become like every other Delta town.
There is a neat rooftop bar in one of the hotels.
Closed by fire.
“Hot ***, Sets Building Ablaze” was my choice for the paper headline.
I went in December, not 20 years ago and it was great. Gotta get the roast beef though.
As is the “Country Music Palace”, ala the 80’s. What a cool place to hang back in the day! Place was huge!
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All the bars that were scattered around rural places (like Greenwood, Grenada, Winona, Vaiden, etc.,) up through the 90s, did online gaming/social media kill them off?