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Category Archives: Southernisms
This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 19, 2018
“Southern writers embrace the freedom of going out West, but once they get out there, it’s almost too free—there’s not enough community or settlement—so in the literature the characters swing back South, or they settle down in the West and … Continue reading
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Tagged McCarty Gallery Restaurant, Merigold, Mississippi
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 12, 2018
If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or … Continue reading
This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 5, 2018
“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and why they left and how they and all this blood kin came to be in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Isabel Wilkerson, southernisms, The Warmth of Other Suns
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 29, 2018
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience —Harper Lee Art: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 22, 2017
“The South is what we started out with in this bizarre, slightly troubling, basically wonderful country—fun, danger, friendliness, energy, enthusiasm, and brave, crazy, tough people.” —Bill Maxwell, “There’s no place like the South,” St. Petersburg Times Photo: Deborah Fagan … Continue reading
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Tagged Holly Springs, Mississippi, southern culture, southernisms
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 15, 2018
“It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.” —Rick Bragg Photo: Brad Frost
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Tagged Rick Bragg, southernisms
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 8, 2018
“I sound gloomy here. I’m not. Actually I exult in sensual pleasures — wife, food, warmth, comfort of home, familiar chair, whiskey, wine, cigar, old pipes cured to perfection, good health. Bright metal on a sullen ground — Shakespeare.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Shelby Foote
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 1, 2018
“Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled north, and, like many southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn’t care for, it … Continue reading
2017 Christmas Southernism
Dooley handed them a basket stuffed with fruit, nuts, candy, a tinned ham, and a pecan pie. “Merry Christmas!” he said. — Jan Karon, A Light in the Window Porchscene hopes all your holidays will be MERRY and BRIGHT!
This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, December 19, 2017
“These days when I think of Christmas at home, I think first of cheese straws and roasted pecans. The pecans are roasted with butter and salt until they are gorgeous and golden with just the right crunch. And by cheese … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheese Straws, Julia Reed, Roasted Pecans, southern christmas
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