B and I went to Greenwood, Mississippi this weekend. I call it The Grown Folks Playground because they have clubs like Wispers and their local radio station plays lots of R&B music that mentions Hennessey in the lyrics a minimum of five times per song.
We visited the Cottonlandia museum and they had a nice swamp room, a special Robert Johnson exhibit, and the worlds largest (or something like that) collection of trade beads.
There was a friendly couple working the desk at the museum and they gave us a map of RJ- related sites and a map of places where the new movie “The Help” was filmed. I asked them if they had seen the movie and they said they hadn’t but they were going that very night. I also learned that there are no movie theaters in Greenwood but Greneda (home of my favorite pint-sized preacher) and Greenville have them.
You don’t really need a movie theater though – you can make your own entertainment by doing things like looking for gravesites.
Robert Johnson is supposedly buried here:
Our friends recommended dinner at Lusco’s and it did not disappoint. All of the tables are in small stalls sectioned off by floral curtains so you kind of get the feeling that someone is going to come in and either serve you an appetizer or wack you using a gun they found taped to the back of a toilet. The baked potatoes are served in aluminum foil and you have to bring your own wine. The light is greenish inside because it is the most flattering to the curtains and stuffed deer heads, and of course the whole place smells like meat.
The courtyard at our hotel:
The Tallahatchie River and the Yalobusha River meet at Greenwood to form the Yazoo River (I’m not sure which one this bridge is covering):
Two rivers become one in The Grown Folks Playground. Go visit Greenwood and enjoy your baked potato.
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