We host the Mighty Roots Music Festival this weekend and I hope you will make the drive out to the gin on Stovall Road.
This will be my third Mighty Roots Festival and it’s beginning to grow on me. No pun intended.
This festival has a very strong agriculture component. The roots of country, blues and even rock and roll run very deep in this town.
We also like the idea of this being a family friendly event.
In a community that is rapidly losing population we need to find more ways to keep kids around town. We need to find more ways for families to make those memories that keep people tied to this good earth.
Last but not least, I will see dozens of my friends and your friends, too.
Drive out Stovall Road and remember kids under 10 get in free. The ticket you pay for will keep out the riff-raff and allow you, Momma and the kids to have a good time.
Then carry the kids home and grab your girl and come back out for an evening under the stars.
Clarksdale and Coahoma County are really a neat place to live.
Locals don’t need to let this opportunity pass them by.
Injustice is a crime
Who is the clown who let a man charged in a double murder out of jail on bond?
This needs to be looked into by someone other than the guy with a barrel of ink.
On Wednesday I listened as the coffee shop crowd applauded street justice. Street justice is always injustice. We got one alleged killer off the street by creating another? That doesn’t make good sense. Clarksdale is not the Wild West or one of those revenge action dramas you watch on TV.
We’ve got a brand new jail on Highway 49. I say we fill it up and stop some of this crazy crime in Clarksdale.
Homecoming
Sara and I raised four boys and never got to do the homecoming court thing.
I’ve covered a jillion of them and I’ll be at Lee Academy Friday night to take a picture of this year’s queen.
It’s a tough job but someone has to do it.
Seriously, I am not wowed by the dresses as much as I am by the styles dad wears. Yes, men watch how other men dress and shop accordingly.
But my favorite part is watching how careful these guys are. It is one thing to offend Momma, because that has probably happened a hundred times before. These guys are so protective of their daughters! They want no embarrassing mistake to mar this moment for their girl.
A daddy’s job is to provide and protect. That’s love as pure as the driven snow.
Floyd Ingram is Editor of your Clarksdale Press Register. His job is to tell about the festival, shooting and new homecoming queen we crowned this week. Call him at 662-627-2201.
