Lindbloom’s View: Fanfare for the Common Man

Remember man, that you are dust…“A year has come ‘n’ gone since we heard the news ’bout Billie Joe

Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo

There was a virus going ’round, Papa caught it and died last Spring

And now Mama doesn’t seem to wanna do much of anything

And me, I spend a lot of time pickin’ flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.” – Bobbie Gentry

By Rich Lindbloom

Passing through the back roads of Mississippi last week, I noticed an old abandoned grocery store. With all the talk of a “Blackhawk Dynasty” being bantered about, the dilapidated grocery store stood in stark contrast to the holy anointing of the…