In Remembrance of the 1927 Mississippi River Flood

Please join us as Mr. Elvin Shields shares his research into the lives of sharecroppers, tenant farmers and the citizens of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi living along the Mississippi River.
He will be reviewing books authored by Lyle Saxon (Father Mississippi), John M. Barry (Rising Tide), and Dr. Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. (Backwater Blues). Mr. Shields will also review publications by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Designing the Bayous and The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, A History) and display his latest artwork entitled Adrift to Nowhere: Sharecroppers Life on the Levee.