This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 31, 2020

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

—Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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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4 Responses to This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 31, 2020

  1. Randall O’Brien says:

    The brilliant Abolitionist author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Was introduced to President Lincoln Thanksgiving Week, 1862, at which time Mr. Lincoln is alleged to have said: “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War.”

  2. Lisa Trenthem says:

    thank you I needed that thought today!

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