Faith, Family, and Business Inseparable for Mississippi Duck Call Craftsman

Brad Eldridge left his job in the agricultural industry to found Parish Waterfowl Co., a café and woodworking shop.

Brad Eldridge, custom duck call craftsman and owner of Parish Waterfowl Co. in Vicksburg, Miss., works in his woodshop in an undated photo. Courtesy of Brad Eldridge

VICKSBURG, Miss.—The frenetic energy of a rapidly changing world isn’t welcome along the leisurely, bricked riverside street in the Civil War-era town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Time saunters at its own pace, like a wayward Confederate soldier who preferred poetry over conscription.