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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 11, 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it’s a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 8, 2018

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “I sound gloomy here. I’m not. Actually I exult in sensual pleasures — wife, food, warmth, comfort of home, familiar chair, whiskey, wine, cigar, old pipes cured to perfection, good health. Bright metal on a sullen ground — Shakespeare.” … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 27, 2017

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”—Shelby Foote Image of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Shelby Foote’s alma mater) is licensed under CC By 4.0 — linked to Wikimedia … Continue reading →

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