CaffeElvis fanatic uses his north Mississippi home as funky shrine to King of Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Emily Wagster Pettus, AP
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Graceland Too attracts offbeat tourism in Miss.

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — A man in the northern Mississippi town of Holly Springs has an Elvis Presley shrine he calls Graceland Too, and he welcomes visitors at any hour of the day.

Paul McLeod says his 157-year-old house is dedicated to the man he considers the greatest entertainer and humanitarian of all time.

Graceland Too features a floor-to-ceiling collection of all things Elvis — curtains, photos, album covers, trading cards, clocks, figurines and other trinkets.

This is a man so obsessed that when his only son was born 36 years ago, he named the child Elvis Aron Presley McLeod.

Graceland Too sits about halfway between Elvis Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo, Miss., and the star’s final home and resting place, the Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn.

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