This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 23, 2018

“Rain finally stopped and now we have the beginning of summer. They say this was the longest rainy season in decades. Spring has been more like New York than Alabama.”

 

— Albert Murray, writing from Tuskegee, Alabama, to Ralph Ellison at the American Academy in Rome in a letter dated May 15, 1956.

 

Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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