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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 24, 2020
“Mobile’s reputation as the birthplace of Mardi Gras in North America does not rest solely on the fact that a few half-starved French colonists observed the pre-Lenten feasts here 300 years ago… In 1852, a group of Mobile “Cowbellians” moved … Continue reading
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Tagged Lonely Planet Louisiana & the Deep South, Mardi Gras, Mobile Mardi Gras
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 17, 2020–President’s Day
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” —President Jimmy Carter Mississippi River Bridge Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 10, 2020
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.“ —Harper Lee Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 3, 2020
I’m saying this is the South, and we’re proud of our crazy people. We don’t hide them up in the attic. We bring ‘em right down to the living room and show ‘em off. See, no one in the South … Continue reading
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Tagged Designing Women, Julia Sugarbaker
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 17, 2020
“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile—a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons … come here, come here, it says.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Live Oaks, Southern Moss, Southern Trees
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 20, 2020
“The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.” — Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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Tagged Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, Sally Mann
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 13, 2020
I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. —Tennessee Williams
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Tagged tennessee williams
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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, January 7, 2020
“For all of our darker impulses, for all of our shortcomings, and for all of the dreams denied and deferred, the experiment begun so long ago, carried out so imperfectly, is worth the fight.” — Southern Historian, Jon Meacham, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Meacham, The Soul of America
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 30, 2019
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.” — Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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Tagged Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 23, 2019
“Christmas kept coming around because it had good reasons for coming around, and it was hard even if you had little not to be a little bit happy.” — Larry Brown, Merry Christmas, Scotty Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter