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Southfacin’ Cook, Patsy Brumfield Brings Aunt Tonni’s Tea Cakes Back to Life
Southfacin’ Cook, Patsy Brumfield Brings Aunt Tonni’s Tea Cakes Back to Life Back at least 100 years, my family and the Gervin-Scales family were close friends. A highlight of that friendship was long, leisurely visits to Mrs. Katie Scales, whose … Continue reading
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Tagged patsy brumfield, southfacin' cook
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A Good Southern Mystery
A Good Southern Mystery by Gary Wright “Some poems don’t rhyme and some stories don’t have a clear ending.” — Gilda Radner Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Whenever we hear a good ghost story we tend to suspend our … Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts with a Southern Accent, Southern Literature
Tagged Ambrose Bierce, Orion Williamson
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The Great Depression—Not Always Depressing
The Great Depression—Not Always Depressing by Gary Wright Fun can always be found where you look for it. The Great Depression of the 1930’s was, in many ways, the darkest time in the modern world. From 1929 until 1939 the … Continue reading
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FLOUR SACK CLOTHES
Flour Sack Clothes by Gary Wright “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — F.D. Roosevelt Times were tough during the depression of the 1930’s. Throughout American history there have been economic downturns, bank panics, recessions and … Continue reading
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Tagged exploring the south, Flour Sack Clothes, Gary Wright, The Depression in the South
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APPALACHIA
Appalachia by Gary Wright Appalachia: rich land, rich people. Old Black Appalachian Trail, Great Smokey Mountains, Tennessee There is an exceptional place partially inside the boundaries of the South where people do not speak with a southern twang … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachia, exploring the south, Gary Wright
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“…that all men are created equal.”
“…that all men are created equal.” by Deborah Fagan Carpenter Memphis, Tennessee has the dubious standing of being the city in which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lost his life to an assassin in 1968. Memphis also has the honor … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South
Tagged Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorraine Motel, Memphis, National Civil Rights Museum, Tennessee
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ENDURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Enduring the Great Depression by Gary Wright The Great Depression of the 1930’s was, in many ways, the darkest time in our modern world. From 1929 until 1939 millions lost their jobs, the stock market crashed, bread lines wound around … Continue reading
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Tagged exploring the south, Gary Wright, southern culture, The Depression in the South
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A Bronze Star for Brenda
A Bronze Star for Brenda by Dr. J. Randall O’Brien Heroes, civil rights heroes and heroines, number in the hundreds, nay thousands — tens of thousands — from the 1960s alone. Immortalized in the pages of American history, many of … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South
Tagged Brenda Travis, Civil Rights Movement in McComb, MS, Randall O'Brien
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