Tupelo Mississippi held a special place in Elvis Presley's heart and continues to do so with his millions of fans!
From Mississippi Today - “Tupelo is the soul of Elvis. It really is,” said actress Allyson Adams, daughter of late Academy Award-nominated actor Nick Adams. Allyson, in Tupelo for the 19th Annual Elvis Festival June 3, reminisced about her father’s friendship with Elvis. Nick Adams also starred in ABC’s late-1950s television series The Rebel. “The birthplace and the people here really portray that and share that with people from all over the world,” Adams said. Her father and Presley struck up a friendship in Hollywood after Presley recognized Nick, despite his minuscule role in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). “Elvis could make you feel like a million bucks,” Allyson Adams said during a panel discussion at the festival. Adams did not realize the extent of that friendship until decades after her father’s death when she uncovered a manuscript he had written, The Rebel and the King. A first-person account of their friendship, the book recounts eight days Presley spent in Memphis ...