Category Archives: Exploring the South

Autumn in the Mid-South Through the Lens of Butch Boehm

Autumn in the Mid-South Through the Lens of Butch Boehm                                                             … Continue reading

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VOTE!

“Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can’t begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free … Continue reading

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Our Immortal Mules

Our Immortal Mules by Joe Goodell A singular phenomenon, the mule, hybrid off-spring of a donkey (jack) and a horse (mare). The other way around, horse (stallion) and donkey (jennet) gives us the hinny. But time and custom have classified … Continue reading

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October’s Feature on the Southern Spread: Annie Fagan’s Gumbo

The Southern Spread by deborah fagan carpenter  Our culture, our history, our spirit, and our hospitality are some of the ingredients. Southern foods are heavily influenced by African, English, Scottish, Irish, French, and Native-American cuisine, and although most of them are … Continue reading

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From Dyess to Nashville

From Dyess to Nashville by Joe Goodell The land was vast and rich; the families, in vast numbers, were not rich; they were beyond destitute, they were starving. Both climate and economy, on errands of menace, had conspired to oppress, then … Continue reading

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See you next week!

We apologize for our absence this week but we’ve been having site issues.  We’ll see you next Monday morning for the weekly Southernism, but, in the meantime, click on the blog link here and scroll through our past posts! If … Continue reading

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“I owe my soul to the company store.”

The Company Store by Gary Wright “Saint Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go; I owe my soul to the company store.” — Merle Travis, ‘Sixteen Tons’ The ‘Company Store’ was probably one of the most vilified institutions … Continue reading

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We are the sum of all of our history and all of our progress.

We are the sum of all of our history and all of our progress. by Deborah Fagan Carpenter We are informed by our past, but we are not all stuck there. Time stands still; time produces evolution. Some things change; … Continue reading

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Images of Moscow and La Grange, Tennessee Through the Lens of Butch Boehm

Images of Moscow and LaGrange, Tennessee Through the Lens of Butch Boehm                                                         … Continue reading

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ACCENT ON SOUTHERN!

Accent on Southern! By Gary Wright A rose by any other name would smell as sweet but it would still be just as thorny.     What is commonly referred to as a “southern accent” in the United States may … Continue reading

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