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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, Delta State University, DJ candy, Good Morning America, jook joint, Luther Brown, Memphis Tennessee, Merigold, 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, Delta State University, Freedmen, Greenwood, Little Zion Missionary baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee, Methodist, Missionary Baptists, 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)

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