![]() ![]() At the Wilson Cafe on the town square, new forks and spoons clinked on new plates, the food prepared by a young chef uprooted from a ritzy restaurant in Memphis and repotted here, the dining room tiled and painted and polished until it looked like something out of Architectural Digest. ![]() On a recent Friday, excavators and dump trucks trundled back and forth at sites all over town, moving dirt in preparation for new construction. Since 2012, however, something fairly amazing has been taking place in Wilson, a town of just over 900 on U.S. These days, the small Delta towns that once bustled with scrubbed up field hands on weekend nights are well on their way to ghostly. For all but the wealthiest, fortunes mostly peaked there around the time mule teams were replaced by chugging tractors, and have been on a steady slide since. No matter which side of the Mississippi River you’re on, the Delta has never been a place where good news was in heavy supply. ![]()
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