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by John Pritchard
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Availability:In StockContributor:John PritchardTheme:Demographic Orientation/Rural, Demographic Orientation/Small TownPublish date:10/2/2026Pages:142
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Livingston Press at the University of West AlISBN-13:9781604894271ISBN-10:160489427XUPC:9781604894271Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Small Town & RuralSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.173Product ID:SCH5PJA68X

Early one winter morning, some years ago, just before daylight, a Big Foot "loped across a gravel road" in front of a big four-wheel-drive vehicle full of Memphis duck hunters, out near the levee, a little South of the fossil town of Austin, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta,

As monsters go, for us, here, in the Deep American South, specifically in the Mississippi Delta, "change" has always been the main Boogabear in Chief.

Change was the big threat. We want our past to remain our present. Indeed, the Delta's most beloved and most useful natural resources are its darkness and the past. Yet, odd as it may sound, no deep Dixie region in America has changed more than the Mississippi Delta. You may dispute that, and I guess we can talk about it.

But, if change ruled as the invisible Godzilla, Big Foot was not threatening at all -- a welcome distraction, in fact; and, I believe, also a symbol of something like hope.

Best of all, Big Foot was not invisible. He had a shape. Big Foot was the monster, not them, the Deltans, and frankly that was a great relief.Even better, a Big Foot could be shot - stuffed, and stood up by the T.V. in the den! - with the wild turkey, a bobcat, a coyote, some wood ducks, the head and spikey antlers of an eight-point buck . . . and the barracuda from Biloxi.

Deltans are editors of the visible. Preference is the same as hope. God said: "Let there be light!" But we told him where to shine it. So, when word went out one day, here, from the Boll & Bloom Café, that a Big Foot had been sighted, all the usual Delta fears disappeared. Their importance collapsed. Curiosity was king. Obsession reigned, and . . . the "Hunters" arose.

Well, two of them did.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Livingston Press at the University of West AlISBN-13:9781604894271ISBN-10:160489427XUPC:9781604894271Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Small Town & RuralSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.173Product ID:SCH5PJA68X
Pritchard, John: - John Pritchard, born in 1938, is a native of the Mississippi Delta and a county therein that had only one paved road, even after World War II. His father-the son of a hardwood lumberman from Indiana who came to live in Memphis in 1910-was an architect and a Fellow in the AIA. Pritchard's mother, Miss Charlie, was a Delta girl of the 1920s, who said tootle-loo and twenty-three-skiddoo, did the Black Bottom and the Charleston, rode the train to all the dances, understood herself, exemplified the "place," was the best of her time, and possessed both a DKE and an SAE fraternity pin, given to her by two of her many admirers. Indeed, Pritchard's parents were exceedingly good and fine and kind and generous. Yet, though he would say "involuntarily," he strained their capacity. And Pritchard, himself, has a son, a man he says is the last Knight of the Round Table and the noblest of them all! More biographical commentary can be found in the "Appendix" of Hunters. Please, be aware that none of it is complete. Ever. Then, by way of mild non sequitur, Pritchard will add that religion lost all credibility when he, in the thick Episcopal fog of Sewanee, was a cadet at SMA. But, though he rejects religious "truths" as myth, he believes in the truth of myths. Mostly the old ones. He earned diplomas from three schools: Sewanee Military Academy (Secondary 1956), Ole Miss (BA 1960), and Memphis State (MA 1968). Other places he "attended" include: Miss Lee's Kindergarten (Memphis), Tunica County Consolidated (the Mississippi Delta), Thomas Jefferson Grammar School (Arlington, Virginia), Columbia University (NYC), Vanderbilt University, and the Nashville Night (YMCA) Law School [One Quarter]. A life of privilege was difficult. Predictably, Pritchard "taught" some sort of English in several institutions and, as it turned out, did the greater part of that-very happily-at Shelby State, which became Southwest Tennessee Community College, in Memphis. Though he no longer lives in the Mississippi Delta, the Delta most certainly lives in him-at his odd little rustic Midtown Memphis house, not far from where, as David Cohn explained: "the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel
Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West Al

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