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Why We Eat Black-Eyed Peas

Grandson: “Grandpa, I asked my dad why we have to eat black-eyed peas every New Years, and he said I

Some ten years ago, I received a rebuke from a gentleman I had gotten to know “electronically.” We had exchanged

There is a certain indescribable peace in the kitchen at four o’clock in the morning of Thanksgiving. The smell of

I am an avid fan of the 1970s Southern Renaissance, a movement that touched music, film, and television. I grew

This isn’t a new idea, but what I am proposing are statewide policies to promote a more Folkish way of

Forty years ago, I put together a book called Why the South Will Survive, with optimistic contributions by fifteen writers

The histories of both Egypt and Mesopotamia are fascinating, if nothing else because of just how old they are. It

I love baseball. Growing up in a multi-generational house, where I spent a great deal of time with my grandfather,

All of the South is special to me, my restless soul unexplainably and mercifully satisfied in a peacefulness that is

We have been planning this trip for some months, a leisurely time of relaxation for the occasion of our wedding