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Tupelo, MS
March, 2001
Dear Jake & Amelia,
We pulled off the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tupelo, MS to fill our gas tank
and find the birthplace of Elvis. We asked the cashier at the Citgo
station for directions. She told us that if we continued down Main
Street, we would find Elvis Boulevard. Take a left and you're at the
house. Then she added, "If you believe." We asked what she
meant. Her grandmother had gone to school with Elvis. He had been born
in the next county, not in Tupelo! The building had been moved. When we
found the two room house, we paid our dollar fee and asked the guide,
"Are we here?" We had a long, amusing discussion about various
Elvis facts and myths. We learned that when Elvis' mother had visited,
she commented that the house, with flowered wallpaper and lace curtains,
looked a lot better than when they lived there. They had newspaper
on the walls. When the next visitors came into the house, the guide
said, "Well, we know that Elvis was born somewhere, and that he was
famous." The myth is alive and well in Mississippi.
Nancy & Peter |
