Widows
Anonymous Anonymous

Widows

Like all good things, she can only be created at a great sacrifice.

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The Broken Battalions
Paul Hamilton Hayne Paul Hamilton Hayne

The Broken Battalions

To simply “forgive and forget” would be a failure to honor the warriors in gray, Hayne laments.

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One Of Our Treasures
M. A. B. M. A. B.

One Of Our Treasures

Grandmothers have a way of capturing our hearts. No home is complete without those wise words and humorous tendencies.

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A Night In The Cars
Augustus Longstreet Augustus Longstreet

A Night In The Cars

All kinds of people were encountered on the cars. It’s quite the place to watch bystanders, lest you fall asleep by the rocking of locomotion.

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Hiding Places In War Times
J. H. Gore J. H. Gore

Hiding Places In War Times

During the tumultuousness of The Civil War, families were often at the mercy of whichever band was passing through at the time. Cunningness was required for survival.

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Sunset
John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom

Sunset

One of the South’s greatest poets laments over waiting to see a woman while strolling through nature with a companion, Rover.

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Sharp Financiering
Joseph G. Baldwin Joseph G. Baldwin

Sharp Financiering

One man’s impeccable practices in the currency business. Mr. Thompson was known for his risk-free way of dealings.

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The Book of the Dead
Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief

The Book of the Dead

I suspect that few kinds of people spend more time poring over the dead than coroners, morticians, and southerners. But unlike the rest, southerners are most interested in digging them up.

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When the South Invented Christmas
Sean Dietrich Sean Dietrich

When the South Invented Christmas

Alabamians invented Christmas. Did you know that? Hell, I didn’t. I thought the only thing they invented was giblet gravy. But it’s true. In 1836, the old boys in Montgomery were the first to make Christmas a public holiday.

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Porches
Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief

Porches

Despite having four walls and a roof, I did most of my growing up on porches. Everybody had one, even if they had to add it onto a mobile home or shotgun shanty. While the kitchen may have been the heart of the home, the porch was its soul.

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Local Color
Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief

Local Color

For the last several weeks, the Southern skies have been the color of dirty cotton. Hot rain poured from the heavens like buckets of seraphic tears. Wet leaves rode the wind and attached themselves to anything not moving fast enough, like old barns and old men’s trucks. But now the rains have come and gone. Summer has done its work.

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Place and Time: A Southerner’s Inheritance
Eudora Welty Eudora Welty

Place and Time: A Southerner’s Inheritance

It is nothing new or startling that Southerners do write, probably they must write. It is the way they are: born readers and reciters, great document holders, diary keepers, letter exchangers and savers, history tracers, and, outstaying the rest, great talkers.

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Bulleit (A Review)
Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief

Bulleit (A Review)

*Someone recently gave me a bottle of whiskey, 𝐵𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑖𝑡 it's called. Here's my little review. I have no idea how to pronounce it, but I've been saying it like "Bullet" to myself. And the more of it I drink, the more myself and I argue over its pronunciation.

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What it Means to Be a Southerner
Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief

What it Means to Be a Southerner

The Southerner who lives or travels in another part of the country is constantly called on to explain to the rest of the world his native land and its people; sometimes he is even called on to apologize for it.

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God Saved The Queen
Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief Brandon Meeks, Editor in Chief

God Saved The Queen

She never wanted to be Queen, not even for a day.

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