Mississippi on My Mind

Included in this book are photographs, poetry, and anecdotes looking back on the author’s 40-year (and still counting) career as a journalist, photo-journalist, and author while working for three Pulitzer Prize winning newspapers in the South.

Featured in this book are portraits of ordinary people who have distinguished themselves in various ways, such as the first female pilot for the U.S. Marines Corps, an old warrior who got to fly a B-17 bomber again after more than three decades,  the midwife birth of a Mississippi Delta baby, the Ghost of Annandale, and Pensacola, Florida’s most famous strip joint/safe haven for Navy fighter pilots and Broadway playwrights and British princes—along with entertainment celebrities such as Waylon Jennings, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the Bangles, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, rock ‘n’ roll legend Carl Perkins, Jimi Jamison of the rock group Survivor, Rolling Stone Ron Wood, hit songwriter and recording artist Deborah Allen, Leon Redbone, teen star Tiffany, Lynn Anderson, Bobby Womack, Shelby Lynne, Holly Dunn, legendary record producer Chips Moman, Elvis Presley’s first guitarist and co-inventor of rock ‘n’ roll, Scotty Moore, and others. A special added attraction is the author's Mississippi Gift Basket collection of the most popular non-culinary delicacies in the South—Breasts in a Basket.

Note: The cover photograph, which has now become a classic, was taken by the author in 1978 while the author was a reporter for the Greenwood Commonwealth.