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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
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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Tagged exploring the south, Jittervug Perfume, Louisiana, southernisms, Tom Robbins
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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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Tagged alabama, exploring the south, magnolia springs alabama, southern culture
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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
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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Tagged Charleston, exploring the south, Pat Conroy, southern literature, southernisms
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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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Tagged Beach Music, exploring the south, Pat Conroy, southern literature
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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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Tagged alabama, exploring the south, Jack Kerouac, southern culture
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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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Tagged exploring the south, Quotes about the South, southern culture, southernisms
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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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Tagged B.T.C. Old Fashioned Grocery, Base Camp Coding Academy, Blu-Buck Mercantile, Bozarts Gallery/Water Valley, Crawdad Hole/Water Valley, Deborah Fagan Carpenter, Dixie Belle Cafe, exploring the south, Mississippi blues, MS, southern culture, Turnage Drug Store, Water Valley, Yalo Studio and Gallery, Yalobusha Brewing Company
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