An Old Familiar Place

Going to Sign! The month of September will be fast and fun with fifteen signings scheduled between the 6th and 28th of the month, and I am ready to get on the road. We've planned some great events beginning with my home base of New Albany. This is where I stay when I'm not county hopping. Come with me and enjoy the company of fine people. Here's my schedule . Please mark your calendar for the one closest to your house. I'll be looking for you. We'll even "leave the light on for you"! Sa turday, September 6, 2014 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. In Bloom Florist and Gifts With John Hickey In Historic Downtown New Albany 139 West Bankhead New Albany, MS 38652 Followed by Family Signing and Gathering Hillcrest Baptist Church Fellowship Hall 2:30 p.m. —Catered late lunch (reserve with Dewey Davidson 662-538-4223) Thursday, September 11, 2014 6:00 p.m. Dinner and Signing Sons of Confederate Veterans Harrisburg Camp With Harry Vinson ...

All my Memphis and North Mississippi friends  are so invited! Holly Joyner's House (Holly's my beautiful granddaughter!)  115 Walnut Creek Road Cordova, Tennessee 38018   Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There is no more familiar place to me than Memphis. It was my town for many years. Like my coming-up trip to Clarksdale, going back to Memphis is always like going home again. I have so many ties to the old Bluff City. My son and grandson are there! Sleepy head! This kid is amazing. Both of them are! They have lived in Midtown for well over ten years, almost as long as we've had Harrison, who is now thirteen! Where did the time go? And, my granddaughters are there with their lovely families, which makes Memphis Town special, indeed. This is Nichol and hers! And this is Holly and hers! So you can see, coming to my signing in Memphis will have lots of bonuses! I won't be able to call names and ...

This Delta Girl is proud to be going back —back to Clarksdale— this time to sign some books  and I want you to be there with me! The Tourism Building In Historic Downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi Saturday, August 11, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. I know—I've been away for a long, long time. But I did go back nineteen years ago and after that trip, I began to write HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS . I couldn't give up on it and some fourteen years later, I got it published. Here's a little excerpt from chapter one of my first book, my memoir, my love for the Mississippi Delta . . . By the time the late fifties rolled around, my interest was not the surreptitious exodus out Fourth Street to Highway 61 North, for I knew nothing of it. Nor was it neighboring Tunica and the casinos, not yet a twinkle in Mississippi's eye. It was those oak-shaded streets—West Second, Catalpa, School, and Oakhurst Drive. It was Alan's and Powers' and Shankerman's dep...