John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

Army veteran and former teacher Lee Washington of Rolling Fork, Miss., bends and welds worn-out cotton picker spindles into scenes from the Delta. Barbara Gauntt Barbara Gauntt, Mississippi Clarion ...

There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...

A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...

Army veteran and former teacher Lee Washington of Rolling Fork, Miss., bends and welds worn-out cotton picker spindles into scenes from the Delta. 28,072 people played the daily Crossword recently.