Before leaving Mississippi …
This Mississippi delta sunset seems fitting for my last post about Mississippi – for the moment. (Next – Texas!). Before I head into the border towns, though, I wanted to say a final ‘thank you’ to this amazing state, and share a few excerpts from a letter written by one of the teachers, Ben Peterson of St. Mary’s Academy. Ben captured the essence of the project’s purpose in ways that only an astute and driven teacher can. Ben’s class was…