Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 1, 2018

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” — John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces   Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 24, 2018

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.   — Pat Conroy, Beach Music   Image: Wikimedia

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 17, 2018

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The place cast a spell on me, a lovely spell that seduced me, one breath at a time.” — Brenda Sutton Rose

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 3, 2018

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 27, 2018

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Ask me about my childhood, and I will tell you to walk to the edge of the woods with a choir of crickets chirping from every direction, a hot, humid breeze brushing through your hair, your feet, bare and callused. … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 20, 2018

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It was hot; heat quivered up from the asphalt, giving to the familiar buildings about the square a nimbus quality, a quality of living and palpitant chiaroscuro.”   — William Faulkner, Light in August       Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 13, 2018

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” — Flannery O’Connor,   Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose   Image: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 6, 2018

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”   Mark Twain — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 30, 2018

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” —Eudora Welty   Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 23, 2018

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “Early in the mornings it was a little cool and their shadows stretched out tall on the sidewalk in front of them. But in the middle of the day the sky was always blazing hot. The glare was so … Continue reading →

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