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Some Southern Boys of Summer
Some Southern Boys of Summer by Gary Wright “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” —Leo Durocher Baseball is said by many to be the best sport ever invented. That is debatable today, but in yesteryear, it far surpassed … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Gary Wright
Tagged Bobby Veach, Boys of Summer, Del Gainer, Dizzy Dean, Paul Dean, Pee Wee Wanninger
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 25, 2019
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Southernisms
Tagged flannery o'connor, southern manners
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 11, 2019
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it’s a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Southernisms
Tagged Shelby Foote, Shelby Foote's The Civil War
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 4, 2019
* “Don’t you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour – but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands — and who knows what to do with it?” … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Southernisms
Tagged New Orleans
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The Legend of Prince Madoc
The Legend of Prince Madoc By Gary Wright The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. – Confucius Mobile, Alabama is replete with history and tradition. Reputedly, … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Gary Wright
Tagged AL, Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd, Mobile, Mobile Bay
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SPOKEN HEREABOUTS
Spoken Hereabouts by Gary Wright “There’s way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health.” — George Carlin Over in No Hope County, Alabama things aren’t often what they appear to be. They take things … Continue reading
Winter in the Mid-South
Winter in the Mid-South Through the Lens of Butch Boehm
A Christmas Gift at the Arcade
A Christmas Gift at the Arcade by Deborah Fagan Carpenter After the death of my father in 1962, my Mother and I began a years-long tradition of traveling to Memphis to spend Christmas with my sister and her young … Continue reading
What They Came and Fought For
What They Came and Fought For by Joseph N Goodell It is not entirely clear what the Union Army was after during that seriously brutal encounter in early April 1862 near Shiloh Church. No doubt for increased control of the … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Joe Goodell
Tagged Borroum's Drug Store, Slugburger Festival, Slugburgers
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A selection from Truman Capote’s The Thanksgiving Visitor
My cousins had never married (Uncle B. had almost married, but his fiancée returned the engagement ring when she saw that sharing a house with three very individual spinsters would be part of the bargain); however, they boasted extensive … Continue reading