This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 20, 2017

“Bless You, O Lord, for the bounty of our table, the varied fruits we can be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day of a troubled year.”

—The Thanksgiving grace by Uncle B., a character in Truman Capote’s The Thanksgiving Visitor

 

 

 

Image: Cover of The Thanksgiving Visitor from Amazon Prime, Book Illustration by Beth Peck

 

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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