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The Mississippi Blues Trail 9 Nights / 10 Days The Mississippi Blues Trail 9 Nights / 10 Days Day 1 - Depart for Poplar Bluff, Missouri Day 3 - Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, Crossroad Depart for Poplar Bluff, MO. Check-in to local area hotel prior Museum, & Helen Keller Birthplace to dinner included at a local restaurant. (Meals: D) Prior to checking out, enjoy breakfast included at the hotel. Visit the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. A division of the Day 2 - Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational National Park Service, one of the National Park Service’s newest Center, A Painted House Film Set Farmhouse, & Johnny visitor centers interprets the key role of Corinth, Mississippi, in the Cash Boyhood Home Visitor Center Civil War’s Western Theater. The 15,000 sq. ft. modern facility Prior to checking out, enjoy breakfast included at the hotel. Visit features interactive exhibits, a multimedia presentation on the Battle the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. The of Shiloh, and a video on the Battle of Corinth. Next, Museum and Educational Center emphasis includes literature of the visit the Crossroad Museum, Corinth Depot and Historic period, 1930s world events, agriculture, family lifestyles and Crossroads. The museum sits only a few feet from the original relationships, and development of Northeast Arkansas during the tracks inside the Historic Corinth Depot and offers visitors a chance Depression and New Deal eras. Arrive in Lepanto, AR. and enjoy to get a glimpse of a passing train. On exhibit at the museum an included Lunch at a local steakhouse with a Personal includes Civil War relics, depot and railroad industry displays, Welcome from the Town Mayor! Visit A Painted House Film Set fossils, American Indian artifacts and aviation memorabilia. On the Farmhouse. Many items used in making the movie are displayed in museum grounds, there is a historic caboose and a Civil War the vintage-looking house constructed for the film. Arrive to cannon and carriage used during the Battle of Shiloh. Enjoy lunch the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home Visitor Center. The Dyess included at an old drug store. Founded in 1865 by former CSA Colony was created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Army surgeon A.J. Borroum, it is the oldest drug store in continuous Roosevelt’s New Deal to aid in the nation’s economic recovery from operation in Mississippi. It houses Native American artifacts, Civil the Great Depression. As a federal agricultural resettlement War relics, and an authentic, working soda fountain. This business community, it provided a fresh start for nearly 500 impoverished has been owned and operated by the Borroum family since its Arkansas farm families, including the family of music legend Johnny founding. They serve old time sodas and milkshakes at the soda Cash. The colony has been resurrected through the restoration of fountain counter that will take you back to yesteryear, and they are several historic buildings open to visitors. The Dyess Colony Visitors known around these parts for having one of the best signature treats Center, located in the Colony Circle at the former site of the theatre in Corinth – the slugburger. Continue to The Shoals, visit and pop shop, is the first stop. It includes a gift shop, orientation the Florence Lauderdale Visitor Center. Tour the W.C. Handy video, and exhibits. The Dyess Colony Administration Building next Home & Museum. W.C. Handy, widely recognized as the Father of door houses exhibits related to the establishment of the colony, The Blues, was born in Florence, Alabama, in 1873. Here you can lifestyles of typical colonists, and the impact that growing up in feel the Blues down to your toes standing beside the very piano that Dyess had on Johnny Cash and his music. From the Colony Circle, shook with “St. Louis Blues” for the first time. Visit Helen Keller visitors are shuttled to the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home, less than Birthplace. The home and museum room are decorated with much two miles from the Colony Center. It is furnished as it appeared of the original furniture of the Keller family. Each is highlighted by when the Cash family lived there, based on family memories. hundreds of Miss Keller's personal mementos, books and gifts from Enjoy dinner included at a local café. Find a veggie plate and here lifetime of travel and lectures in 25 countries for the betterment an array of fresh salad selections on the menu, all of the world's blind and deaf-blind. Check-in to your local area hotel. featuring ingredients sourced from no more than 100 yards from the Dinner is included at Swampers at the hotel. Your meal is cafe. The sleek interior is unexpected, boasting a rustic-industrial accompanied by Muscle Shoals musicians and the special vibe, complete with shiny white subway tile work, industrial piping appearance of a “Swamper”. (Meals: B, L, D) and rich, wooden tables and accents. Check-in to your local area hotel. (Meals: B, L, D) Day 4 - Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, FAME Studios, & Wednesday through Saturday there is always live music at Ground Alabama Music Hall of Fame Zero Blues Club® (and even on a few Sundays when the occasion Enjoy breakfast included at the hotel. Arrive at Muscle Shoals arises), serving a "down home" menu. Explore Delta Blues Sound Studios, formed in 1969 by four session musicians called Museum – The state’s oldest music museum ‘delivers not only the The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section who had left Rick Hall's nearby music but also the culture that produced it. Enjoy free time to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals to create their own recording explore the shops in Clarksdale prior to dinner included this facility. Enjoy a tour of Fame Studios. See the Recording Studio evening at a Bar & Grill. Owned and operated by Australian Naomi that recorded artists like Aretha Franklin with “Do Right Woman” & “I King and Clarksdalian Jonathan King, Levon's offers a unique Delta Never Loved a Man” which went on to win a Grammy for Album of dining experience. The brilliant kitchen team, led by Clarksdale Chef the Year. Many others recorded here like Wilson Pickett who fired Carl Jackson, is well known for their creative, innovative Southern off a string of classic recordings here including “Mustang Sally,” and cooking style. With a constantly evolving seasonal menu, original “Hey Jude” which featured Duane Allman. Enjoy lunch on cocktails and live music, you’re invited you to enjoy the best of the own and free time in Downtown Tuscumbia. We suggest lunch at South. Depart for Cleveland, MS. Check-in at the Cotton the Superhero Chefs, the brain child of celebrity chef Darnell House. Cotton House’s namesake was inspired by the property’s Ferguson who has appeared on The Food Network several times location on the historic Cotton Row in downtown Cleveland. A fixture and recently won the 2018 Ultimate Thanksgiving Cook off. This is a on the Mississippi Blues Trail, at the doorstep of the Grammy superhero-themed restaurant serving urban eclectic American Museum, and in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, Cleveland and cuisine, and breakfast all day. Stop at the Alabama Music Hall of Cotton House evoke the celebratory spirit and the welcoming, Fame in Tuscumbia which is a great place to start with exhibits communal nature of the hardworking, hard-playing people and honoring musicians from all over the Yellowhammer State. While the heritage of the area. The Cotton House name inspires these same museum does cover the whole state, Shoals artists are feelings and values in its guests, serving as a reminder to those well-represented among the display cases and busts of Hall of both near and far of the carefree experience that awaits Fame inductees in the great hall. Return to hotel, then later them. (Meals: B, L, D) enjoy dinner included at the hotel at 360 Grille. Located on top of the Renaissance tower, our revolving restaurant offers breathtaking Day 7 - Dockery Farms, Guided Tour, Museum of the Delta, views of Florence. Soak in the sights as you indulge in one of our & Dinner Event decadent steaks, fresh salads and more. (Meals: B, D) Enjoy breakfast included at the hotel. Stop at Dockery Farms for a photo op. Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km2) Day 5 - Elvis Presley Museum, Downtown Tupelo, & Dinner cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Show Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is Prior to checking out, enjoy breakfast included at the hotel. Depart widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. for Tupelo, MS. Visit the Elvis Presley Museum - Completely Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, renovated in 2006, the state-of-the-art museum still pays tribute to Robert Johnson, and Howlin' Wolf. The property was added to the that friendship and displays new exhibits containing Tupelo artifacts, National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Next, we arrive large photo-murals and graphics and audiovisual presentations that to Greenwood, MS, where 95% of the movie “The Help” was focus on Elvis, his childhood and his first music. Visit downtown filmed. Enjoy a guided tour including: Popular movie sites such Tupelo and the Hardware Store for unique Elvis souvenirs and as “Hillies” House from “The Help”. You’ll also visit Money, enjoy lunch on own in a “Dive” and afterwards enjoy a milkshake MS where Emmitt Hill was murdered in the 1950s, a spark that served at Elvis’s favorite Drive In. Continue to Indianola, MS. Check galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Learn about Robert -in to your local area hotel. Enjoy dinner included and a show Johnson, the Blues artist that “Sold His Soul to the Devil” and where BB King and others performed.
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