The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently provided a tour of sites related to the Great Flood of 1927 to visiting dignitaries from Ole Miss. Pictured from left to right are Andrew Mullins, vice chancellor of the University of Mississippi, Luther Brown, director of the Delta Center, Beth Ann Fennelly and her husband Tom Franklin. Fennelly teaches at Ole Miss and is the author of several books of poetry and letters. Franklin is a past Guggenheim Fellow and John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss. He has written several books, including the novels Hell at the Breech, Smonk: a Novel, and most recently Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, for which he received a Willie Morris Award.
The husband-wife team has just finished collaboration on a new novel that is set in the Delta and ends with the flood of 1927. This photo was taken in Scott in front of the Mississippi Blues Trail marker that describes the flood of 1927 and its consequences to Blues music.
