Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 11, 2017

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I haven’t given a thought to Christmas, except where to get a little whiskey for the eggnog.” — Eudora Welty writing to her agent, Diarmuid Russell in 1947  

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 4, 2017

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” —Flannery O’Connor     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 27, 2017

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”—Shelby Foote Image of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Shelby Foote’s alma mater) is licensed under CC By 4.0 — linked to Wikimedia … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 20, 2017

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Bless You, O Lord, for the bounty of our table, the varied fruits we can be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day of a troubled year.” —The Thanksgiving grace by Uncle B., a character in Truman Capote’s The Thanksgiving Visitor … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 13, 2017

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall. — Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories   Mixed media painting: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 6, 2017

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “Explaining the myriad delights of a football Saturday in the South to anyone who has not enjoyed them may be impossible — like trying to describe the ocean to a blind man.” —Tim Heaton, Don’t be Ugly: The G-rated … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 30, 2017

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

““The weather was unusually warm for the last day of October. The wind was growing stronger, and there was no moon. The street light on the corner cast sharp shadows on the Radley house. I heard Jem laugh softly, ‘Bet … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 23, 2017

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if it had been carefully chosen and presented in a way that only a man born and raised in … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 16, 2017

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 9, 2017

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” — Helen Keller

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