MONDAY,
MARCH 29
A SENSE OF PLACE: Landscape, Blues, and Barbecue
1:00 p.m. Event
Registration – Alluvian Lobby
2:30 p.m. Walking Tour: Downtown Greenwood & Viking Corporate Offices
4:00 p.m. Book Signing & Reception at Dancing Rabbit Books
5:00 p.m. Setting the Scene
“ Railroads, Crossroads, and the River: Travel and Permanence in the Mississippi
Delta,”
talk by Ted Ownby, Center for the Study of Southern
Culture
“Delta Land,”
talk by Maude Schuyler Clay, Delta photographer
Book signing immediately following
6:30 p.m. Cocktails –Giardina's bar (adjacent to the Alluvian lobby)
7:30 p.m. Blues & BBQ Dinner – Viking Training Center
Spooney’s Bar-Be-Que
Crystal Grill pies
Live Delta Blues by Big T of Clarksdale
9:30 p.m. Ramble to Robert Johnson’s Money Road Gravesite with Big
T
TUESDAY, MARCH 30
GREENVILLE: Walker Percy
8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Depart for Greenville - Jimmy Thomas, tour guide
Make blues-related stops in Moorhead and Indianola
Delta Welcome given by Carver Randle in Indianola
Visit Birthplace of Kermit the Frog exhibition at Leland
11:00 a.m. “Reflections on Greenville Writers,” comments
by
Franke Keating at the William Alexander Percy Library
11:10 a.m. “The Athens of the South: Walker Percy and His Circle,”
talk given by Kenneth Holditch at the William Alexander Percy Library
NOON Lunch at the Percys’ – Lisa & Billy Percy, hosts
“ The History of Greenville,”
talk given by Hugh McCormick
1:30 p.m. Greenville Tour led by Mary Dayle McCormick
2:30 p.m. Greenville Cemetery Tour led by Princella Wilkerson Nowell
3:00 p.m. Sweet tea & cheese straws at McCormick Book Inn with
Hugh McCormick
Reading, Beverly Lowry
Book signing with Greenville authors & live blues
Musician, Eddie Cusic
Delta Welcome given by Carver Randle of Indianola
5:15 p.m. Depart for Greenwood
6:30-7:15 p.m. Free time
7:30 p.m. Dinner at Lusco’s in Greenwood
“The Cefalu Connection,” talk given by Amy Evans
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
CLARKSDALE: Tennessee Williams
8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Depart for Delta Tour led by Luther Brown
From Greenwood, through Money, Ruleville, Drew,
Parchman, Rome, Tutwiler and on to Clarksdale
NOON Lunch at Ground Zero, Clarksdale
1:30 p.m. “A Deep Dark World You Can Breathe In: Tennessee Williams
and Mississippi,”
talk by Kenneth Holditch at St. George’s Episcopal Church
3:00 p.m. Tour Tennessee Williams sites and various
blues sites,
including the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale
4:00 p.m. Visit Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art Gallery
View
works by local artists and enjoy live music.
4:30 p.m. Depart for Greenwood
6:30 p.m. Alluvian Art Tour led by artist, Bill Dunlap
7:30 p.m. Dinner at Giardina’s in Greenwood
THURSDAY, APRIL 1
OXFORD CONFERENCE FOR THE BOOK OR BUST!
8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Depart for Oxford (1.5 hours)
Oxford Conference for the Book, dedicated to Walker Percy
On the University of Mississippi campus, April1-4
