Day 19 - Jarvis

Yesterday was a interesting day for all of us. Everyone had Tallahatchie Flats, the place of shelter for the night. The wakeup call was for 7:30 and we had to be on the bus by 8:30. I believe everyone made it. Then we were off to church. It was a small Methodist church with a big voice. Everyone was welcoming and the sermon was well received. We had lunch at the church and it was like thanksgiving dinner. After lunch we traveled on a guided tour of greenwood, Mississippi that was greatly needed because most of us never toured a rural area before. After the tour we dined at a historic restaurant and had numerous of speakers from around town. My favorite of those was the city councilman because he agreed to help cultural leadership place a historic marker in front of the store where Emit Till supposedly whistled at a white women. The day concluded with beautiful Tallahatchie Flats, which was an old sharecropper’s home. It was nice quiet and to stars and moon was vivid. I don’t know about everyone else but I enjoyed my stay.