Spring ‘07
Southern Cultures volume 13, number 1
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
"In the good old days, I’ll have you know, 'nostalgia' was just a fancy term for homesickness."
Essays
Machelhe Island
by Bland Simpson
"Machelhe Island was, like the river itself, an inescapable daily sight in this old town, a swampy elongation stretching from Camden Way toward us in town, pinching the river at The Narrows and then letting it--maybe making it—spread out to the southeast and quickly widen and become a bay."
Economic Development and Globalization in South Carolina
by Lacy Ford and R. Phillip Stone
"'More of the same is not going to work, because you can only get so many BMWs.'"
Photo Essay
Kure Beach to Asheville
Snapshots from North Carolina’s I-40 Corridor
by Gyoung-Youl Jeong
"The South, of course, is not what it once was."
Features
Mason-Dixon Lines The Devil Is In
poetry by Tanya Olson
"The devil was in the grocery store yesterday..."
South Polls Seniors and the Sunbelt
by John Shelton Reed
"Brother Dave Gardner once cracked that 'the only reason people live in the North is because they have jobs there.'"
Beyond Grits and Gravy Hunting Down Alabama Old-Time Manure Tea
by Karen Yochim
"Owing to the soaring prices of pharmaceuticals, I thought it wise to track down a woman who is known for brewing an old-time, all-purpose Alabama cure-all: cow-manure tea."
Not Forgotten Gertrude Weil and Her Times
by Anne Firor Scott
"'Who knows? I may live long enough to become a communist!'"
