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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 16, 2018

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The spring of that year had been a long queer season. Things began to change and Frankie did not understand this change. After the plain gray winter, the March winds banged on the windowpanes, and clouds were shirred and white … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 25, 2017

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“One place understood helps us understand all places better.” — Eudora Welty   Louisiana shack photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 26, 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.” ― Tim Heaton, Don’t Be … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 19, 2017 by Sally Mann

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “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 →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 12, 2017

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.” ― Tim Heaton  

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Good Night, Delta Son

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

 Thomas Rainer Lawrence September 6, 1939 – March 22, 2017   He was infuriating, exasperating, ill-tempered, impatient, opinionated, and foulmouthed. He was also a clever, funny, devoted, kind, generous, down-to-earth, practical, and wise counselor, mentor, and friend. Tom Lawrence was … Continue reading →

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Only the Children

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Only the Children by Deborah Fagan Carpenter “Atticus—” …said Jem bleakly. “How could they do it, how could they?”   “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it … Continue reading →

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they think they’re right, and you’re wrong

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “Atticus, you must be wrong.”   “How’s that?”   “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong. . .”   “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said … Continue reading →

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