Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” —Maya Angelou Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 17, 2022

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 3, 2022

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Eating together is an occasion that humans have made into a peacemaking ritual.”   —Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 26, 2022

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Trees still grow after letting dead things go.”   —Darnell Lamont Walker, southern writer, filmmaker, and artist Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The three biggest funerals in Alabama history define the state’s contending loyalties, I was told: George Wallace’s, Martin Luther King’s, and Bear Bryant’s.” —Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Season on Back Roads Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air—moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh—felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.” —Tom Robbins Photo: Deborah … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 29, 2022

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it” —Russell Baker Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 22, 2022

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn’t go back home easily.”   ― James Lee Burke, In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead     Photo: Deborah Fagan … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Posted on July 26, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy warm dreams of distant thunder.” —Terri Guillemets Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 18, 2022

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It is so hot in the South tonight, the mosquitoes are carrying canteens.”  —Tom Petty Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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