Included in this book are photographs, poetry, and narrative
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. Dickerson
is known for seeking interaction with his photographic subjects.
Featured in this book are portraits of ordinary people who have
distinguished themselves in various ways, such as Lt. Col. Sarah
Deal, the first female pilot for the U.S. Marines Corps (she was
attending air traffic school at the U.S. naval base in Millington,
north of Memphis, when the defense secretary announced that pilot
training would be offered to women in the U.S. Marine 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, a spine tingling story associated with
the Chapel of the Cross, one of the most historic churches in
Mississippi . . . and a look Back at Trader Jon's, 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,
Marshall Chapman, B.B. King, Suzy Bogguss, 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, Faith Hill, Leon Redbone, teen star
Tiffany, Lynn Anderson, R&B legend Bobby Womack, Shelby Lynne,
Holly Dunn, Paulette Carlson legendary record producer Chips Moman,
Elvis Presley's first guitarist and co-inventor of rock 'n' roll,
legendary guitarist Scotty Moore, a poem about a female Mississippi
surgeon who operates in the nude (no nudity involved iln the book)
. . . Mississippi author Willie Morris (North Toward Home and My
Dog Skip) and others. Roughly 1/3 of the images in the book relate
to Mississippi, 1/3 relate to Memphis, and 1/3 relate to Nashville.
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