The “step back in time to the summer of 1955” the family promised on the application was a trip into a parallel universe of erasure. If you drive to Money right now, there is a perfectly restored gas station designed to show how everybody got along back then, standing next to the collapsed wreck of a store where a fourteen-year-old boy whistled at a white woman and got tortured to death by a decorated combat veteran for it. Both are owned by the same family. As Dave Tell wrote, “While Bryant’s Grocery stands as an indictment of the Delta, Ben Roy’s is an apology for it. Thus we have nostalgia
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