This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 14, 2020

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

 

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing — some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey — shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

— Preston Sturges

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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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