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THE SOUTHERN SPREAD, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The Southern Spread by deborah fagan carpenter Our culture, our history, our spirit, and our hospitality are some of the ingredients.  Southern foods are heavily influenced by African, English, Scottish, Irish, French, and Native-American cuisine, and although most of them … Continue reading

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 18, 2017

“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.”  — … Continue reading

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

“It’s surprising how many threads are connected with religion and Southern history. You can’t talk about literature, politics  _ anything Southern _ without talking about religion. If you want to study the South, you have to study religion.”     —Southern … Continue reading

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OUR SPIRITUAL WATERING HOLE Carla Carlisle

Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Texas as they endure nothing short of a disaster. The tragic events unfolding in towns and cities across the coast of Texas as a result of Hurricane Harvey are a painful reminder of the devastation reeked … Continue reading

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 21, 2017

  “Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”  ― Pat Conroy         Image: http://www.perfecthomecharleston.com/

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 14, 2017

“Mark my words. You’ll be back soon. The South’s got a lot  wrong with it. But, it’s permanent press and it doesn’t wear out.”    —Pat Conroy, Beach Music       Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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Travis of the Alamo

  Travis, of the Alamo By Gary Wright Follow the crowd, and you will never be followed by a crowd. — Unknown   On March 6, 1836, after a 13-day siege by an overwhelming force of more than 3,000 Mexican … Continue reading

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 7, 2017

  “We got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. … Continue reading

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 31, 2017

“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile — a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons … come here, come here, … Continue reading

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Old and New Converge

Old and New Convergeby Deborah Fagan Carpenter   Once a thriving town on the Illinois Central Railroad line, when the train repair shops relocated in 1930 and mechanization took over farming, Water Valley, Mississippi, like so many small towns, was … Continue reading

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