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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 24, 2017
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness…” — Anne Rivers Siddons, Colony
Posted in Southernisms
Tagged exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southernisms, the south
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Ode to Billie Jean
Ode to Billie Jeanby Gary Wright “There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman.It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.”—Oscar Wilde American Country music has no counterpart anywhere in the world. Its father … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South, Gary Wright
Tagged Billie Jean Jones, Country Music, exploring the south, Faron Young, Gary Wright, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Phantom of the Opry
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 10, 2017
“Summer in the Deep South is not only a season, a climate, it’s a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.” ― Eugene F. Walter, The Untidy Pilgrim Photo: Deborah … Continue reading
Posted in Written With a Southern Accent
Tagged Deborah Fagan Carpenter, exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southernisms
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Meat Loaf, Butternut Squash, and Peas
Meat Loaf, Butternut Squash, and Peasfrom Southfacin’ Cook, Patsy Brumfield PATSY’S MEAT LOAF My family loves meat loaf, so whenever I make it, I make a lot so we can have leftovers for sandwiches. Here’s one way to do … Continue reading
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Tagged exploring the south, patsy brumfield, porchscene, south facin cook, southern food
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 19, 2017 by Sally Mann
“To identify a person as a Southerner suggests not only that her history is inescapable and formative but that it is also impossibly present. Southerners live uneasily at the nexus between myth and reality, watching the mishmash amalgam of … Continue reading
OLD’ HANK’S CARR
Old’ Hank’s Carrby Gary Wright “Everything is so random there must be a pattern.” As the sun was rising on New Year’s Day about 65 years ago, a beautiful, shiny blue Cadillac pulled up the Hill, West Virginia hospital in … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring the South
Tagged 1952 Cadillac, Charles Carr, exploring the south, Gary Wright, Hank Williams, southern music
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 12, 2017
“Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.” ― Tim Heaton
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Tagged exploring the south, southern culture, southern literature, southern speak, southern writers, the south
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SWEET POTATOES OR YAMS?
Sweet Potatoes or Yams? by Joe Goodell I do not know how many sweet potatoes are harvested every year in North Carolina. There are reports of the number being greater than that for Mississippi. So we appreciate that it … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Food
Tagged exploring the south, Joe Goodell, Mississippi, southern cuisine, southern food, southfacin' cook
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