Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180705:04:45:00
Everybody knows everybody. >> ace atkins: in the middle of mississippi, oxford is an oasis of thought, and art, and literature, and feeling, and sentiment and everything. they call this place the velvet ditch. >> anthony: why the velvet ditch? >> jack pendarvis: i guess you just roll in and it's pretty frigging comfortable, and you don't care much about getting out. right? right? am i right? >> anthony: well, no one here seems too bitter about that. >> wright thompson: it's a place that needs help but it's a really great place. we're never leaving. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded!...