Spring ‘06

Southern Cultures volume 12, number 1

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Letters to the Editors
    As Long as the Food Is Good0
    "We even accept transplanted Yankees who have seen the light."

Front Porch
    by Harry L. Watson
    "You can almost always start an argument about southern unity versus diversity."

Essays

Life-everlasting
Nature and Culture on Sapelo Island
    by Mary Hussmann
    "What was most moving was that it was here that the ghosts of the people we’d read about jumped out of history and into our lives."

Drafting Away from It All
    by Lucas Marcoplos
    "A dark secret hid itself under my overt appreciation for barbecue and bluegrass: I knew next to nothing about NASCAR."

Fat Tuesday at Dixie's
Jack Robinson’s New Orleans Mardi Gras Photographs, 1952-1955
    by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman
    "Shaw became national news in 1969, when District Attorney Jim Garrison accused him of leading a circle of gay men from New Orleans who, Garrison was convinced, orchestrated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."

Interview

Harold Burson
On Interviewing Faulkner for the Memphis Commercial Appeal
    by William R. Ferris
    "He'd go in his back woods and drink himself insensible with some of his sharecropper friends."

Mason-Dixon Lines
"My People"
    poetry by James H. Clinton
    "My people rolled over twice in a Pontiac one dark
    night, but survived. . ."

Southern Voices
Julian Bond
    interviewed by Elizabeth Gritter
    "We just said, 'Whoa, what was that?' and later saw this bullet hole."

Not Forgotten
Don Lee Keith Is Dead
    by Perry Kasprzak
    "'Hi, my name is Don Lee Keith, and you don't know me, but you ought to.'"

Books

Hal Crowther
Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South
    reviewed by John Shelton Reed
    "If you agree with Crowther you'll really enjoy it when he gets a good rant going."
 
Roy Blount Jr
Robert E. Lee: A Shattered Nation
    reviewed by J. Tracy Power
    "'What on earth,' you may be asking yourself, 'is the point of another book on Robert E. Lee?'"

Anne Sarah Rubin
The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
    reviewed by Don H. Doyle
    "The nation resided in the heart and mind."

Keith Lee Morris
The Best Seats in the House
    reviewed by Dave Shaw
    "There's craft in asking the right question—in asking it in just the right way and in leaving it at that—and South Carolina's Keith Lee Morris has it mastered."

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