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At Play in the Delta

In the Delta, folks find their pleasure where they can. They find it in country clubs and juke joints, in glitzy casinos and at kitchen tables, as well as at ball fields, in deer woods and fish camps. Much of that fun could be viewed as what Smithsonian historian Pete Daniel calls "domesticated violence," and sometimes the domestication seems on the verge of reverting to the wild.

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