Join me and many others at the Mississippi Book Festival at the State Capitol in Jackson.

Delta Dawn and Dusk - http://msbookfestival.com/schedule

Presented by Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area

Authors explore real-life stories and the realities of race, economics and sense of place in the Mississippi Delta.

Rolando Herts, Director of Delta State University’s Delta Center for Culture and Learning, MODERATOR

Yvette Johnson, The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright

Ellen Meacham, Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi

Julian Rankin, Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta

Catherine Egley Waggoner, Realizing Our Place: Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land

(I'll also be moderating the panel, Art for Art's Sake, at nearby GALLOWAY FELLOWSHIP CENTER.)