Long Weekend
3 days · ~420 miles · from Piggott, AR
Down the strange loess spine of Crowley's Ridge — Hemingway's writing barn, Johnny Cash's boyhood home — then into the flat Delta's hard history: massacre memorials, an internment camp, and the blues at Helena.
This trip chains: Crowley's Ridge Parkway · The Arkansas Delta
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer barn where he finished 'A Farewell to Arms,' then the restored Johnny Cash Boyhood Home at Dyess, Parkin's archeology, and Jones Bar-B-Q in Marianna — into Helena for the night.
The Delta Cultural Center and the King Biscuit radio legacy, the sobering Elaine Massacre Memorial, then south to Arkansas Post, the first European settlement on the lower Mississippi. Overnight McGehee.
The WWII Japanese American internment museum at McGehee and the Rohwer cemetery it remembers, then Lakeport Plantation and hot tamales at Rhoda's in Lake Village, under the levee where the river runs high.