Category Archives: Tom Lawrence

Pensacola with a Past by Tom Lawrence

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

As a child, I spent my summers with my paternal grandparents in Pensacola, Florida.  In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, Pensacola was a sleepy little city completely out of the American mainstream.  Because my grandfather was a retired Naval … Continue reading →

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Jaws Averted by Tom Lawrence

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

I love the beach early in the morning and late in the afternoon, not so much around mid-day.  Probably this is a result of being a red head and having the complexion of the Pillsbury Doughboy.  At any rate, we … Continue reading →

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Wal-Mart, A Slice of the South by Tom Lawrence

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

I find myself spending more and more time bemoaning the demise of “Southern Culture” as I knew it as a child and young adult.  I long for the days when gas was 19 cents a gallon, the movie cost 10 … Continue reading →

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Frog Gigging in a Rice Field by Tom Lawrence

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

Rice farming came to the Mississippi Delta in the early 1950’s.  There are basically two kinds of soil in the Delta; fine grained river silt that has been deposited by eons of spring flooding along the Mississippi River, known as … Continue reading →

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How The Delta Came to Be by Tom Lawrence

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

Scenes from History

Scenes from History

The great alluvial flood plain known as the Mississippi Delta begins just south of Memphis, Tennessee and extends to just north of Vicksburg, Mississippi.  The Delta is nestled between the Mississippi River on the West and the chain of hills … Continue reading →

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Driving on a Gravel Road by Tom Lawrence

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

Scenes from History

Scenes from History

If you learned to drive in the Mississippi Delta before 1960 you learned on gravel roads.  Mississippi had a very good system of concrete highways that connected all parts of the State.  No responsible parent would allow their twelve year … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Deborah Fagan Carpenter by Tom Lawrence

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Tom Lawrence

This first interview for PorchScene.com features Memphis artist Deborah Fagan Carpenter.  I commissioned Deborah to create the dust cover for my book of short stories that was published in April of 2011.  I have owned one of Deborah’s major paintings … Continue reading →

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