Summer Read: Walking the Haunted Past of the Mississippi Delta
b'When W. Ralph Eubanks began exploring his family\\u2019s homeland, he fell in love with it\\u2014and came to understand how this troubled part of the state gave birth to the blues. Eubanks had grown up in another part of Mississippi\\xa0before journeying\\xa0to the Northeast U.S. to pursue life as a writer and scholar. But when fate brought him back, he was drawn to the Delta\\u2019s topography, realizing that the only way to understand the region\\u2019s history\\u2014and his own\\u2014was to walk the land.'