The wooden shack where he lived with his wife and four children was a relic. Rats ran under the floorboards, there were no window screens to keep out the mosquitos and birds flew into the attic. But there are similar wooden structures in various states of disrepair all over the vast expanses of the Mississippi Delta, one of America’s most fertile and poorest regions. It was still home. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fd84c7ab0-4ebe-11ec-9043-2aa4c0c21cd8.jpg?crop=2250%2C1500%2C0%2C0&resize=1022