Water Valley MS: "The 1920s were the high point here."

Revitalization in Mississippi ... what can we learn, or can we learn anything? Thanks to WA for the link.

They Made Main Street Their Own; How Four Women Revived a Derelict Mississippi Town, by Penelope Green (New York Times)

OVER lunch at the B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery here one day last month — pear zucchini soup and cornbread madeleines — the women of Water Valley were talking demolition.