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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 4, 2018

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I’m Southern, and I know neurotic behavior.” —Faye Dunaway

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 26, 2018

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton … Continue reading →

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ENDURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Gary Wright

Enduring the Great Depression by Gary Wright The Great Depression of the 1930’s was, in many ways, the darkest time in our modern world. From 1929 until 1939 millions lost their jobs, the stock market crashed, bread lines wound around … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 22, 2017

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The South is what we started out with in this bizarre, slightly troubling, basically wonderful country—fun, danger, friendliness, energy, enthusiasm, and brave, crazy, tough people.” —Bill Maxwell, “There’s no place like the South,” St. Petersburg Times   Photo: Deborah Fagan … Continue reading →

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A Southern Raisin’

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Gary Wright

A Southern Raisin’by Gary Wright Southerners have mastered picking, choosing and rationalizing better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe. — Maggie Young Looking back on my life, I realize that my southern raisin’ was an extraordinary occurrence granted to … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 23, 2017

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if it had been carefully chosen and presented in a way that only a man born and raised in … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 4, 2017

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It’s surprising how many threads are connected with religion and Southern history. You can’t talk about literature, politics  _ anything Southern _ without talking about religion. If you want to study the South, you have to study religion.”     —Southern … Continue reading →

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Sullivan’s Hollow

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Joe Goodell

Sullivan’s Hollow by Joe Goodell   The streams, Oakahay and Okatoma gathered strength from the creeks to become wider and deeper, while wandering their steady way through the future Smith County of Mississippi. It was a network of generous waterways, … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 7, 2017

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “We got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. … Continue reading →

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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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