On This Day

April 13, 2025

On this day, a husband ate breakfast with his wife and told her that Greenwood feels like home–they should buy a place here. Kids in church clothes played spies and slid down a slide saying, "Off with his head"

and "Into the dungeon."

Gospel music played as a fire engine was washed at station No. 1. Four white-tail deer ran in the woods along the Yazoo River. A wall in Marigold read, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” A private property sign hung close to the barn where Emmitt Till was murdered.

A gas station cashier said he grew up in Tunisia and speaks French, Italian, and Arabic, but the Delta feels strange to him.

Spoons were played as an instrument. Rocks, guitar picks, and beer bottles lay on Robert Johhson's grave. Nearby, ceramic hands held the scene of the Last Supper.

There was advice Eudora Welty received when she started writing: “Always be sure to get your moon in the right part of the sky." A

woman turned 55.

All on this day.