Posted on 08/21/2018 8:20:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 08/21/2018 8:33:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP)
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Home of Doe’s Eat Place, best steaks in the country. And within a 25 miles radius, there were born:
Shelby Foote (writer)
Jim Henson (Muppet creator)
B.B. King (musician)
Edgar and Johnny Winter (musicians)
Bruce Blackmon (musician/songwriter, “Moonlight Feels Right”)
Hodding Carter, Jr. (liberal writer)
Greenville went in decline around the 1980’s but is trying to recover, little by little. Good news about the plant opening.
Correction...Bruce Blackman. Sorry, Bruce.
Huge. The delta is one of the most beat down areas in the United States. I listened to a US attorney in Florida mocking a man for having a $10 an hour job there, and it being called a good job. For the area, it was, and the man had fair prospects. The judge ultimately decided he did too.
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