Ben Guest’s Blog Vox 2008-05-07T03:52:33Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22523f3adf219/tags/mississippi+delta/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... Intern tag:vox.com,2008-05-07:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f72d930004 2008-05-07T12:52:07Z 2008-05-07T03:52:33Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Part Two of the MTC 2007 Summer Intern film.  Watch Part One here.



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]]> The Delta tag:vox.com,2008-04-06:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48d0aaacf0001 2008-04-06T20:09:03Z 2008-04-06T20:09:03Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Working on a Google map of the Mississippi Delta.  Here is a short film (photos and music) I made about the Delta last year:

The Delta...


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]]> Old School Disco tag:vox.com,2008-02-29:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cdfa0520002 2008-02-29T01:21:04Z 2008-02-29T03:27:48Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full
Disco
Disco
"Old School Disco" with a basketball court on one side.  Photo was taken in 2003, outside of Belzoni, MS.

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]]> Money, MS tag:vox.com,2008-02-28:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398e0f4d10004 2008-02-28T03:31:27Z 2008-02-28T03:31:27Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full
Bryant's Store in Money, MS
Bryant's Store in Money, MS
This is all that remains of Bryant's Store in Money, MS.  Fourteen-year-old African-American Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, for saying "Bye, baby" to Carolyn Bryant as he left this store in 1955.  Bryant, a white woman whose husband, Roy, owned the store, resides, to this day, in Greenville, MS.  After his acquittal Roy boasted publicly, and in print, about killing Till.

This photo was taken in June of 2007.

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]]> Greenwood and Money tag:vox.com,2007-07-09:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900cd973e44524cd5 2007-07-09T05:54:05Z 2007-07-09T06:17:17Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Last Saturday, second-year Ashley Johnson and I showed Lauryn Smith, the fabulous MTC intern, around the Mississippi Delta.  We toured Greenwood and Money and parts in between.

Money is the small town where Emmit Till was tortured and murdered (interestingly enough, Till's Wikipedia page has caused a heated debate).  The store, where he committed the unpardonable crime of whistling at a white woman, is still standing (barely).  Photos of the trip are below.  More photos here...

DeltaStoreSky



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]]> The Mississippi Delta tag:vox.com,2007-05-18:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900d41438ec673c7f 2007-05-18T14:20:04Z 2007-05-18T14:20:04Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

This is a short (50 sec.) video I put together as part of a larger project I'm working on:

The Mississippi Delta
The Mississippi Delta



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]]> Delta Education... tag:vox.com,2007-05-04:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900d4142ebab4685e 2007-05-04T15:49:29Z 2007-05-04T15:52:25Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full
Delta Education 2
Delta Education 2

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