Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 11, 2021

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“While today’s terrible display of terror and meanness shakes us, let’s remember: John Ossoff, Jewish son of an immigrant and Reverend Warnock, first Black Senator from Georgia, will join a Catholic POTUS and the first woman, Black + Indian VP … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 28, 2020

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“He was always embracing the larger humanity. He felt that. He believed it. He played it. He taught it.” —Wynton Marsalis speaking to John Dickerson on 60 Minutes about his father, Ellis Marsalis, who died of pneumonia caused by Covid-19 … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 21, 2020

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” — Dale Evans Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Maudie would yell back, “Call a little louder, Jack Finch, and they’ll hear you at the post office.” … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 6, 2020

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” —W. T. Ellis Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 23, 2020

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ― William Faulkner Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 18, 2020

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

You can’t do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey. —Katy Mixon Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 9, 2020

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life. —Harper Lee Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 2, 2020

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.” —Ernest Gaines Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 26, 2020

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“If you don’t participate, you let other people make decisions for you. Bad things happen when good people don’t vote.” —Ann Richards Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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