People have been leaving the Mississippi Delta for decades. Jack and Elizabeth Coleman went the other way.
After successful careers in D.C. and Texas, they moved back to Jack’s hometown of Rosedale and started spending millions of dollars to build the Delta’s first legal distillery, restore old buildings, create jobs, and give people a reason to come to town.
Crazy? Maybe.
But the Colemans are betting Rosedale isn’t finished yet.
On the latest Empower Podcast, they talk about the Delta, entrepreneurship, taking big risks in small towns, and a question more Mississippians ought to ask:
If not us, who?
This post is sponsored by Empower Mississippi.
7 comments:
Heroes. Thank you so much for your service and dedication to our State.
Good luck!
We visited the distillery a couple months ago...Cool Spot. Best of luck to them and the booze is good
Maybe Bennie will take note and actually do something for the Delta? Na, probably not.
Good folks!
What happens when the Colemans realize the local culture, work ethic, demographics, crime, income and reliance on government programs are not going to change...no matter what?
They can paint a mural on every deserted storefront in town and somebody will splash dookie on them before nightfall. Then after a roar of disapproval disappears after lasting three hours, things will return to normal.
As a corollary, let's switch channels over to Canton (similar statistical comparison) where Rich Grain Distilling Co. was the first legal distillery in Mississippi, founded in 2016, opened to much fanfare after two years of publicity, magazine shots and television coverage.
David Rich was the founder and owner who produced the first legally distilled bourbon in Mississippi. Their flagship bourbon was claimed to "age uniquely in Mississippi's hot and humid climate".
Mr. Rich planned to put Canton on the global bourbon-map and the business closed in 2020.
Canton is still Canton and in many ways is just a larger version of Rosedale only there's a McDonald's and a Popeye's.
Heroes? He'll disappear and try to write a book in three years. lol
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