Our plan, using the term plan very loosely, was to return to the Mississippi Delta after the Memorial Service and wander around listening to Blues and eating Barbeque. But first, Michele wanted to go back to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to see a show on the influence of Superman and Wonder Woman on culture. We had driven from Memphis to the retirement community of Fairfield Bay, first across the rice-growing area of the Arkansas Delta, and then into the Ozarks.

After spending a couple of days with the Hoenigsbergs and Hilsenraths in Fairfield Bay, we drove through more of the Ozarks to Bentonville, the home of Crystal Bridges. The light was flat with the temperature was still dropping down to freezing at night, and the Ozarks looked poor and uninviting.

To be continued….