Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 11, 2022

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.” —Unknown Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 27, 2022

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old’s thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 20, 2022

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “As a Bolling in Feliciana Parish, I became accustomed to sitting on the porch in the dark and talking of the size of the universe and the treachery of men; as a Smith on the Gulf Coast I have … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. —Rebecca Wells Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter  

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 23, 2022

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The perfect speech would consist of the diction of the east, the vigor of the midwest and the melody of the South” – Winston Churchill Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“All I can say is that there’s a sweetness here, a Southern sweetness that makes sweet music. If I had to tell somebody who had never been to the South, who had never heard of soul music, what it was, … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 11, 2022

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Then in his mind it was spring again, and he looked upon a field. It was prepared for the planting, the soil had been broken by the plow. It was the proper season. There was warmth in the soil.” — Byron Herbert Reece, “The Hawk and … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 28, 2022

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River. And singers like Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 14, 2022

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“…and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.” —James Lee Burke Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.” —Tennessee Williams Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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