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Published: February 4th 2012
The place is almost like a ghost town. Driving up Highway 49 is a drive back through time. It may not be what it looked like in its heyday. But a movie would set it up like this to show a scene of a time gone by.
Plantation fields dominate the area. The Mississippi was a place many African Americans saw as a promise land. A place to work and earn enough money to buy a plot themselves to work o...
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
We just drove by Graceland
it was too tacky and expensive. However, your blog brought back a great memory. Linda and I attended a Johnny Cash concert in Boblingen, Germany in the early 1980's. Following intermission his concert was crashed by Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. They had a great jam session for the rest of the evening. The only one missing was Elvis, but he had passed away although there were rumors that he was there...probably just in spirit.