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THE SOUTHERN SPREAD: Funeral Food
The Southern Spread by deborah fagan carpenter Our culture, our history, our spirit, and our hospitality are some of the ingredients. Southern foods are heavily influenced by African, English, Scottish, Irish, French, and Native-American cuisine, and although most of them … Continue reading
Posted in Deborah Fagan Carpenter, Exploring the South, Food Scene
Tagged exploring the south, Mississippi, southern food, The Delta, the south
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OUR SPIRITUAL WATERING HOLE Carla Carlisle
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Texas as they endure nothing short of a disaster. The tragic events unfolding in towns and cities across the coast of Texas as a result of Hurricane Harvey are a painful reminder of the devastation reeked … Continue reading
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
Posted in Southernisms
Tagged exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southernisms, the south
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where … 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
Posted in Written With a Southern Accent
Tagged exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southern speak, southern writers, the south
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RODNEY
Rodney by Joe Goodell The ill fortunes of Rodney, Mississippi played out like a marauding storm. There were the yellow fever epidemics, two ravaging fires, the War, of course, and later, the floods of 1927 and 2011. But the … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South
Tagged exploring the south, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, southern history, the south
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The Power of Reasonable Action
The Power of Reasonable Action by Deborah Fagan Carpenter Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. … Continue reading
Namesake by Joe Goodell
Katrina was a natural disaster that ravaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and a man-made disaster that devastated the historic city of New Orleans. It was an epic event, whose aftermath revealed the very best in human nature — and the … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Joe Goodell
Tagged exploring the south, katrina, mississippi gulf coast, the south
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So, What’s the Fascination ? by Deborah Fagan Carpenter
What is it about the South? What is it that captivates people all over the world? Yeah, historically we’ve exhibited some bad behavior—and some currently— but it remains one of the most puzzling, yet intriguing places on the planet. So … Continue reading
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Tagged Deborah Fagan Carpenter, exploring the south, the south
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