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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, July 31, 2017

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“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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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 19, 2017 by Sally Mann

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “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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More Southern Speak by Gary Wright

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Gary Wright

“. . . tomorrow is another day,” by Scarlett O’Hara, a product of the mind of Margaret Mitchell. Author’s disclaimer: Any resemblance to any real person, living or dead in this work is purely the fault of that person for resembling my … Continue reading →

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Share Your Favorite Southernism

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Mary Prater

“How’s your mama’n’them?” How many times have we heard that? Not once do we have to stop and wonder what a mama’n’them is…we know because we’ve been brought up on the South’s unique way with the English language. As our … Continue reading →

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