September 11, 2014
Storytelling in Mississippi

So far almost every native Mississippian I’ve met has a story that they’ve been working on since birth- and let me tell you they are much more interesting than the ones we city folks come up with- but more on that later, when you get to meet some of these Woodvillians on the blog. Which brings to mind the” art of family” – at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art we talked about it a lot- for example- my friend David Rae Morris, photographer and his Dad, writer Willie Morris (notice how I chose a MS example). The Mississippians that I’ve met keep their family, past and present, close. There is a palpable feeling that they are the keeper of the flame- it’s a lovely quality.