“The use of the F-word was completely unnecessary. I am very disappointed.” Sure, we should have seen it coming. A little more foresight, and we might have avoided having to publish all these letters primarily concerned with administering a good hammering. (In case you’re wondering, we play the role of the nail.) Perhaps when we »

“Nostalgia’s just not what it used to be.” The pain of loss is a staple theme in southern culture. From Rocky Top to Swanee River, crooning drifters year for home. The prophet warns that Jesus will come back and the bluesman wails that his baby will not. The gospel artist longs for loved ones on »

“Herbert rushed to Greene’s aid, armed with a nine-and-a-half-inch knife and a pistol.” January 25, 1848 started like any other day for University of Alabama student Edward Baptist. Due to give a recitation in class, he practiced in his room, determined to please his professor. But a childish prank would change his life forever. While »

“So far Dan Sears has ‘logged over 1300 miles,’ and he has found some of the most artfully crafted images we’ve ever published.” Former AP and UPI photographer Dan Sears says that his “Southern Scenes” is “an on-going personal project to document vistas and sights that are disappearing from the South.” For Sears, photography is »

“Ever since Thomas Jefferson proclaimed the Natural Bridge to be ‘the most sublime of nature’s works,’ visitors have been flocking to this limestone arch.” Ever since Thomas Jefferson proclaimed the Natural Bridge to be “the most sublime of Nature’s works,” visitors have been flocking to this limestone arch, located between what are now the cities »

“When we talk of the South, are we talking about the South of Southern Living, a South that is enviably affluent and peopled almost exclusively by gracious whites who seem to do little more than cook gourmet meals and tend to their luscious gardens?” In 1976 the Democratic Party nominated a true blue son of »