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European travel writers and radio show hosts tour the Delta

European travel writers and radio show hosts tour the Delta

 

CLEVELAND―Twenty eight travel writers and radio show hosts from Spain, England, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany recently toured the Delta for five days courtesy of Mississippi Tourism and our local Chambers of Commerce. 

 

They came for the grand opening of the B.B. King Museum in Indianola on Saturday, September 13.  The group was met in Tunica by Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University and escorted throughout the Delta on a heritage tour that concluded with the unveiling of the museum in Indianola. 

 

Among other things, the group explored the Tunica River Park Museum and followed Highway 61 to Clarksdale where they were met at the Crossroads by “Super Chikan” playing the blues, followed by barbecue at Hopson Commissary.  They rode  the Blues Highway as they came south with stops in Mound Bayou, Dockery, the Highway 61 Blues Museum in Leland, and a night of live Blues featuring Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Pat Thomas at Po Monkey’s Lounge. 

 

They visited several stops on the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail, and witnessed the dedication of the Trail marker at B.B. King’s birthplace in Berclair.  They spent two nights in Cleveland, and ate dinner at The Senator’s Place and Airport Grocery. 

 

These writers have a combined audience of over 15 million European readers and listeners.   The opening of the B.B. King Museum was also covered by the local and national press, including a writer from Rolling Stone Magazine. 

 

Photo:  Travel writers and radio show host pose in front Po Monkey’s Lounge. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloria Enriquez, Senior Secretary

Communications and Marketing

Delta State University

P.O. Box D-3
1003 West Sunflower Road

Cleveland, Miss. 38733

Office: 662.846.4675

Fax: 662.846.4679

E-mail: genriquz@deltastate.edu

 

MS Blues Trail License Plate will be made when 200 are purchased...

 The Mississippi Blues Foundation has recently taken on the project of getting this new “specialty” car tag into production and available.  Because the deadline is so soon (October 15), the internet and “word-of-mouth” is how this news is being spread.  An application can be printed from www.highway61radio.com .

Map to Berclair Marker unveiling!

Marker unveiling of BB King’s Birthplace – Berclair, MS

Thursday, September 11, 2008     

3:30pm

Lil' Bill Wallace in April-2008

Lil' Bill passed away this summer on August 10th. He is seen here at Mary
Shepard's Retirement Party in April with Mary and Skeeter Provis.

Mississippi Blues Trail License Plate

 

MISSISSIPPI RESIDENTS

 

 

The Mississippi Blues Commission has designed a Mississippi Blues Trail license plate. We need commitments before we can proceed with the license plate process. Please let me know if you would be interested in the Mississippi Blues Trail license plate for your automobile.

 

 

 

Leigh Portwood

Heritage Trails Program

Mississippi Development Authority

Tourism Division

Post Office Box 849

Jackson, Mississippi 39205

Phone: 601.359.3061

Fax: 601.359.5757

Email: lportwood@mississippi.org