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

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “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

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 24, 2017

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“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

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 10, 2017

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

    “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

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 12, 2017

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.” ― Tim Heaton  

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Good Night, Delta Son

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

 Thomas Rainer Lawrence September 6, 1939 – March 22, 2017   He was infuriating, exasperating, ill-tempered, impatient, opinionated, and foulmouthed. He was also a clever, funny, devoted, kind, generous, down-to-earth, practical, and wise counselor, mentor, and friend. Tom Lawrence was … Continue reading →

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A Southern Christmas Memory

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

 A Southern Christmas Memory by Deborah Fagan Carpenter “Imagine a morning in late November. A coming-of-winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its … Continue reading →

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written with a southern accent

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“There is only one unpardonable sin — deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never.” —Truman Capote, The Thanksgiving Visitor 4image is licensed under CC By 4.0 — linked to www.ihheduc.com 

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