Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 29, 2019

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee?” — Lynyrd Skynyrd   Smoky Mountain Painting: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 22, 2019

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “Then in his mind it was spring again, and he looked upon a field. It was prepared for the planting, the soil had been broken by the plow. It was the proper season. There was warmth in the soil.” … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 15, 2019

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Respectable ladies in those days were not supposed to rouge; rice powder was as far as you were thought to go. Aunt Julia used to nibble slightly at a petal and rub a delicate bloom onto her cheeks, and would … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 8, 2019

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“In the South, as in no other American region, people use language as it was surely meant to be employed; a lush, personal, emphatic, treasure of coins to be spent slowly and for value” — Time Magazine, September 1976

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 1, 2019

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Southern Style   was written by Eugene Walter..   For more than 20 years, Walter lived in Rome and Paris, but whenever he was asked that familiar question, “Where are you from?” Walter always answered, “I’m Southern..” Photo: Catherine Barton

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 25, 2019

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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 →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 18, 2019

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Southern nights Have you ever felt a southern night? Free as a breeze Not to mention the trees Whistling tunes that you know and love so Southern skies Just as good even when closed your eyes I apologize To anyone … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 11, 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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 →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 4, 2019

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

* “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 →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 25, 2019

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. — Greg Iles, The Quiet Game     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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