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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 3, 2022

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Eating together is an occasion that humans have made into a peacemaking ritual.”   —Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The three biggest funerals in Alabama history define the state’s contending loyalties, I was told: George Wallace’s, Martin Luther King’s, and Bear Bryant’s.” —Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Season on Back Roads Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 3, 2020

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I said I was a stranger here. “Ain’t no strangers here, baby,” she said, and gave me a merry smile.”   —Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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