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

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I think that without the South this nation would have no soul. The South is the soul of this country. That’s the truth.” —Trace Adkins,  country music artist   Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 12, 2018

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 5, 2018

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.” — Clyde Edgerton

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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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 12, 2018

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 5, 2018

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and why they left and how they and all this blood kin came to be in this … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 29, 2018

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience —Harper Lee Art: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 15, 2018

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.” —Rick Bragg   Photo: Brad Frost

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 1, 2018

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled north, and, like many southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn’t care for, it … Continue reading →

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