Visitors to the Triangle Cultural Center will now be greeted with a beautiful mural inside the entry way, donated by a couple who wanted to forever capture the beauty of Yazoo’s land and her people.
The Yazoo Historical Society unveiled the three-panel mural during a reception last Thursday at the Triangle. The mural, painted in 1985 by John McDonald, was donated to the local historical society by Steve Boone and Melba Bowman of Jackson. The massive piece depicts a sweeping panorama of the verdant topography of Yazoo City. The mural was brought and displayed thanks to a donation from the Yazoo County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
“The CVB played a huge role in this, and it could not have been done without them,” said Hayes Dent, with the Yazoo Historical Society. “It was during our annual meeting last fall when it was shared with us that we were receiving this unbelievable gift. I was able to see some photographs of the mural, and I was blown away.”
Melba Bowman commissioned the work in 1988 after her many travels through the Yazoo area. She said she was always so amazed by Yazoo’s farmland, industry and scenery on her way through to the Delta region.
“My late husband and I would take road trips from Jackson to the Delta, and we loved this area, particularly coming down Broadway when the Delta spread out in front of you,” Bowman said. “We were making an addition to our house, and we had a long stretch in front of our balcony that we wanted something spectacular to put on that wall. I grew up in the Delta, and I always remembered that scene in Yazoo.”
