Rheta Johnson: A New York yankee in King Cotton’s court
They say that the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends at Vicksburg, Mississippi’s, Catfish Row.
Rheta Johnson: Making hay of hate
Mississippi, my adopted home state, place that I love, is reverting to its old ways, which many of us who live here had believed and hoped to be in the distant past.
How Hank warmed our cold, cold hearts, with Grimsley Johnson Wednesday
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library concludes its series of April Table Talks with a presentation by award-winning columnist and journalist Rheta GrimsleyJohnson. Grimsley Johnson, whose nationally-syndicated column appears weekly in The Commercial Dispatch, will focus her talk on her recently-published book “Hank Hung the Moon … and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts” (NewSouth, 2012). This “musical memoir” looks at the South of the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of the seminal songwriter Hank Williams.
Shannon Bardwell: Rheta’s book signing
Driving to Tupelo, I was excited about going to see columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson. “The Enchanted Barbie and the Second Coming” has just come out, and Rheta is on the publicity circuit.