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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  

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 17, 2017

  “I’ve barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?” “Well, we could start with the words ‘what indication.’ Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, ‘Who the hell … Continue reading

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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

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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

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 26, 2017

“In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.” ― Tim Heaton, Don’t Be … Continue reading

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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