Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 10, 2018

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

    “Oswald welcomed the cooler weather because in the following days he discovered it brought winter sunsets, and the river sunsets were different from anything else he had ever seen. They mesmerized him.”—     –Fannie Flagg, A Redbird … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.”  ― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 26, 2018

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 19, 2018

Posted on November 19, 2018 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   Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 12, 2018

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can’t say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 5, 2018

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller     Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 29, 2018

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Fall is a southerner’s reward for having survived summer.” —James Farmer     Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 22, 2018

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Home is where you hang your childhood.” —Tennessee Williams

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 15, 2018

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The dream which built America was the dream of a land where every man could believe what he wanted to believe and advocate what he wanted to advocate, and still be safe from the anger of those who disagreed.“ —William … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 8, 2018

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“They tried opening a Red Lobster in Lafayette — man, that place closed in less than a year. Cajuns won’t eat no frozen shrimp.”  — Lafayette resident   Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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