The following is from the Lower Delta Partnership December 2008 Newsletter:
On Wednesday, December 3 at 10:30 a.m., Rolling Fork joined the Mississippi Blues Trail with a marker
dedicated to McKinley Morganfield, a.k.a. Muddy Waters. The marker dedication will take place near the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Walnut Streets in Rolling Fork; the public was invited.
Born April 4, 1915, near Rolling Fork, MS Blues great, Muddy Waters, took Chicago by storm in the late
Only in Mississippi. It’s all true, y’all!
1. You can properly pronounce Kosciusko, Ackerman, Gautier and Belzoni.
2. You think people who complain about the heat in their states are sissies.
3. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.
Young Chuck in Montana bought a horse from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next day he drove up and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the horse died.’
Chuck replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’
The farmer said, ‘Can’t do that. I went and spent it already’
Chuck said, ‘Ok, then, just bring me the dead horse.’
The farmer asked, ‘What ya gonna do with him?
Chuck said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off.’
The farmer said, ‘You can’t raffle off a dead horse!’
Chuck said, ‘Sure I can, Watch me. I just won’t tell any body he’s dead.’
A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, ‘What happened with that dead horse?’
Chuck said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $998..
The farmer said, ‘Didn’t anyone complain?
Chuck said, ‘Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.
Chuck grew up and works now for the government. He was the one who figured out how to “bail us out”.
This doesn’t exactly make me home sick, but Lake Washington is where we used to hang out in the summer and where we learned to water ski. I don’t know who the guys are in the video, but I never knew any locals that were quite so anxious to grab water moccasins and water snakes.
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Wild, Wild, Life - True Stories - The Talking Heads
Look for yourself in this video! Yeah, you’re in there somewhere!
