This weekend is special here in Cleveland.  It’s Pig Pickin’ Weekend!  For those of you (in other words almost all of you) who don’t know what I’m talking about, the Pig Pickin’ is a big barbeque competition held every year at Delta State.  Local businesses and some departments from DSU (such as the library) set…

This week at trivia night, a friend of mine observed that she hadn’t seen any African Americans at Hey Joe’s (which hosts the event).  That got me thinking of all of the places I’ve visited over the past few months.  It was impossible to disagree with her observation.   Now Delta State is something of an…

Septembers in the Delta are not the same as up North.  Last week it was nearly 100 degrees for several days.  This week it’ll be in the 90s.  Mid-afternoon still feels nearly as bad as July.  To a New Yorker like myself this is still summer weather. But you can feel the difference at night….

In previous posts I talked about the community garden run by several people at Delta State University.  Well things are going good.  We’ve got Okra, Serrano chilies, tomatoes, basil, tomatillos, and Indigo ready to be picked.  Sadly the melons fell victim to boring vine beetles and the blackberry and raspberry plants never really got off…