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If you travel to Vicksburg, Mississippi you will encounter Margaret's Grocery.  Reverend Herman Dennis and his wife, Margaret, reside there. According to Mrs. Dennis, the two met twenty years ago and were married.  Reverend Dennis promised Margaret that he would turn her store into a palace and so he commenced decorating.  What has resulted is nothing short of a magical wonderland of faith.  Margaret's Grocery is an excellent example of the African and African American tradition of assemblage--the laying of images, text and objects. 

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Reverend and Mrs. Dennis
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They hold tablets containing the Ten Commandments

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