Shannon Evans details the similarities between plantation tourism and blues tourism, both of which employ similar mechanisms of erasure, nostalgia, and mythology. By relying on romanticized narratives that align with the expectations of white tourists, both blues and plantation tourism are detached from the historical realities of the African American experience.
The exciting conclusion to Emily Hilliard’s blog series about her efforts to memorialize blues artist Nathan Beauregard at Shiloh MB Church Cemetery in Ashland, MS.
In 2022, the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund received a grant from the MDNHA to write a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the jook joint of recording artist Alonzo Chatmon in Glen Allan, Mississippi. This blog post details the initial stage of the project.