Photo Gallery

These images are courtesy of the Caffe Lena Collection and were originally sent to Fred Bolden.

The link to the Caffe Lena History Project is http://www.caffelenahistory.org

Top drawing: Mississippi John Hurt at Caffe Lena.

Bottom drawing: Mississippi John Hurt with Lena Spencer (founder) at Caffe Lena.

These drawings of MJH were a "study" created by artist Bria Bancroft in early 1966, done at the Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, New York. MJH was staying at our house for a week while he played Club 47 earlier that month. I was with him and Dick Waterman, his manager/agent, for that last show here, and Mr. Waterman has already stated that one of the last shows he did with MJH was at the Caffe Lena, and I know he was at Oberlin on April 15, 1966. The next month, I called MJH at his home in Grenada when he failed to appear at a coffeehouse on Cape Cod (Turk's Head). MJH told me, "Freddie, I been sick."

Mary Hurt-Wright

Mary Hurt-Wright, Former Governor of Mississippi Ron Musgrove, and one

of the owners of Ground Zero, a club co-owned by Actor Morgan Freeman in Clarksdale, Ms.

Mary Hurt-Wright and Ernest Alfred

Mary takes the mike

Josie and Jesse Johnson - John Hurt's Grandson

Art Browning playing Guitar

Jam

Catering Team

Sue Duke and Art Browning

Michael Baytop and Andy Cohen

Original MJH home before move and conversion to Museum

John Hurt Museum with Music Festival in Background

Recipients of MJH Music Awards

Carroll County Officials

MJH Highway Marker on Highway 7 near Avalon

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