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Old and New Converge
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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Tagged B.T.C. Old Fashioned Grocery, Base Camp Coding Academy, Blu-Buck Mercantile, Bozarts Gallery/Water Valley, Crawdad Hole/Water Valley, Deborah Fagan Carpenter, Dixie Belle Cafe, exploring the south, Mississippi blues, MS, southern culture, Turnage Drug Store, Water Valley, Yalo Studio and Gallery, Yalobusha Brewing Company
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 24, 2017
“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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Tagged exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southernisms, the south
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 10, 2017
“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
Posted in Written With a Southern Accent
Tagged Deborah Fagan Carpenter, exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southernisms
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SYMBOLS
SYMBOLS by Joe Goodell The term “symbol” is derived from the Greek “symbolon,” a pledge or sign by which one infers something abstract. A good example is the symbolic Bulldog which aptly infers the “Go Dawgs” spirit of Mississippi State … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Culture
Tagged Joe Goodell, Mississippi, Mississippi Symbols, southern culture
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 19, 2017 by Sally Mann
“To identify a person as a Southerner suggests not only that her history is inescapable and formative but that it is also impossibly present. Southerners live uneasily at the nexus between myth and reality, watching the mishmash amalgam of … Continue reading
This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 12, 2017
“Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.” ― Tim Heaton
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Tagged exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southern speak, southern writers, the south
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ME OH MY—JAMBALAYA!
ME OH MY—JAMBALAYA! by Deborah Fagan Carpenter Mardi Gras! It’s the South’s great party! A prelude to Ash Wednesday and Lent, Mardi Gras originated in Europe, but it began in the U.S. in—still under debate—either New Orleans or Mobile. (In Louisiana … Continue reading
Mobile Mardi Gras à la Joe Cain
Mobile Mardi Gras à la Joe Cain By Gary Wright Often, things are not as they seem; usually, but not always, more so than ever Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr. October 10, 1832–April 17, 1904 Widely known … Continue reading
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Tagged alabama, exploring the south, Gary Wright, Mardi Gras, Mobile Mardi Gras, southern culture
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