Monthly Archives: July 2017

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 31, 2017

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile — a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons … come here, come here, … Continue reading →

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Old and New Converge

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Old and New Convergeby Deborah Fagan Carpenter   Once a thriving town on the Illinois Central Railroad line, when the train repair shops relocated in 1930 and mechanization took over farming, Water Valley, Mississippi, like so many small towns, was … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 24, 2017

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness…” — Anne Rivers Siddons, Colony  

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 17, 2017

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “I’ve barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?” “Well, we could start with the words ‘what indication.’ Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, ‘Who the hell … Continue reading →

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Ode to Billie Jean

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Gary Wright

Ode to Billie Jeanby Gary Wright “There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman.It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.”—Oscar Wilde American Country music has no counterpart anywhere in the world. Its father … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 10, 2017

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

    “Summer in the Deep South is not only a season, a climate, it’s a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.”   ― Eugene F. Walter, The Untidy Pilgrim       Photo: Deborah … Continue reading →

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PATSY’S CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Patsy Brumfield

Collard greens, stuffed peppers, banana pudding, country fried steak, sweet potato pie, fried chicken, pecan pie, peach cobbler, corn bread dressing, lima beans! Old fashioned, southern recipes seem to be having a resurgence in popularity across the country, and our … Continue reading →

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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where … Continue reading →

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