Bill Ferris (left) looks over a copy of Living Blues magazine with blues great B.B. King during a visit by King to the University of Mississippi in the 1980s, when Ferris was director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications
December 20, 2017
“ “Through storytelling, the South reveals its soul.”—Bill Ferris
Click the photo above to purchase this book. “The Mississippi Book of Quotations” by David Crews was published by The Nautilus Publishing Company of Oxford, Mississippi, in 2016. From introduction: “Our country’s most impoverished state is undeniably our richest when it comes to writing, lyrics, and stories.”
