Willy Bearden, The Friendship of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, Delta: Everything Southern, 2012
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Publication Date
8-5-2021
Abstract
A native of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Willy Bearden has expressed his love of the Mississippi Delta through his interest and talents in music, books, history, film-making and speaking. He is best known for his popular "Memphis Memoirs" programs that air on the WKNO-TV (PBS). He has directed and produced a full-length motion picture, "One Came Home," situated in the Delta of the 1940’s. Bearden is the 2011 recipient of the University of Memphis College of Communication and Fine Arts Distinguished Achievement Award in the Creative and Performing Arts. The presentation is from the collection of William Bearden.
Source Collection
Delta: Everything Southern, 2012
Recommended Citation
"Willy Bearden, The Friendship of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, Delta: Everything Southern, 2012" (2021). Video. 4.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-exhibit-ev_south2012-av1/4
Date
2012 June 8
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