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Po’ Monkey’s Lounge – Merigold, Mississippi

April 15, 2009 – 1:32 pm

$5 entry, $3 beer – no fire or liquor licenses or other permits or authorities – and Po’ Monkey vigorously enforces his own strict set of rules – no baseball caps, no guns, no baggy-ass pants – this effectively excludes young teenage gangsters from the lounge – no fighting, no beer bought in and no dope smoking.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Art, Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized | Also tagged ABC, Bolivar county, Cleveland, DJ candy, Good Morning America, jook joint, Luther Brown, Memphis Tennessee, Merigold, Mississippi delta, New York Times, Po' Monkeys, Poor Monkey's jook joint, Southern Spaces, Willie Seaberry | Comments (1)

Mississippi Delta rural churches

April 14, 2009 – 12:07 pm

The Delta has a rich religious heritage, and is a land where faith- in God, in the future, in grace, and in ultimate redemption – unify all people. Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches are commonly represented in Delta towns.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been | Also tagged Abundant Life Pentecostal Church of God In Christ, African Methodist Episcopalians, Arkansas, Baptist, Charles Harrison Mason, Church of the End Times, Cleveland Mississippi, Delta Center for Learning and Culture, Freedmen, Greenwood, Little Zion Missionary baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee, Methodist, Missionary Baptists, Mississippi delta, Mississippi River, Morgan City, Mt. Zion Missionary baptist Church, Payne Chapel Missionary baptist Church, Presbyterian, Protestant, Quito, Robert Johnson, True Living Word Temple of Deliverance, Vicksburg | Comments (4)

The Church with the Hand Pointing Heavenward – Port Gibson Miss.

April 6, 2009 – 11:39 pm

The First Presbyterian Church at Port Gibson was built by the Reverend Zebulon Butler, who had the unfortunate distinction of also being the subject of its first service – his funeral.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Art, Some places I've been | Also tagged Baton Rouge, First Presbyterian Church, Georgia, Griffin, Mark Bonta, Mississippi, Natchez, New Orleans, northern Louisiana, Pentacostal, Port Gibson, The Church with the Hand Pointing Heavenward, Vicksburg | Comments (0)

Society of Ethnobiology 32nd annual conference – Tulane University, New Orleans

April 1, 2009 – 1:34 am

New Orleans 4 years ago – there was no water purification equipment on site, no chemical toilets, no antibiotics and no anti-diarrheals stored for a crisis. There were no designated medical staff at work in the evacuation center.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Ethnoornithology, Some places I've been, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bird-man cult, Canis lupus, Cleveland, crypto-species, Dana Lepofsky, Easter Island, eastern Indonesia, El Ritual del Hombre-Pajaro, Felice Wyndham, Flores, Greg Forth, Hurricane Katrina, Idaho, International Society of Ethnobiology, Jami Wright, Louisiana National Guard, Mark Bonta, New Orleans, Nez Perce, Rapa Nui, Sara Tiffany, Society of Ethnobiology, Superdome, Wolf | Comments (0)

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