Con Chapman :: My Right Arm ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in Sedalia, Missouri, site of a “skirmish” between Yankee and Rebel forces during the Civil War; while the town had southern sympathizers, I found a Union army cavalry handbook in a stove in the...
Becky Meadows :: Boodoo vs. The Pantyhose ::
Shut hern Legitimacy Statement:I am a farm girl who still reaches for her gum boots to go feed the birds. I grew up in the arms of a grandmother who worked 40 hours a week for 36 years in a...
David VanDevelder :: Her Heroic Final Role in the Fading Persona of So and So ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Papaw came up in the Great Smokey Mountains, near Farner, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. When he was nine, he lost track of the time one summer evening, squirrel hunting up on the mountain, and he...
Sarah Das Gupta :: A Green and Pleasant Land ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: In the UK I’m known as a ‘posh’ Southerner because I live south of Watford. My chidhood was spent in the south of England in a village at the highest point of the North Downs- which with...
Michele Hromada :: River Street ::
I lived most of my life in NY, but for the past year I’ve resided in Savannah, GA. Relocating here had been an adjustment until I discovered the quirky pleasure of walking along the Savannah River with my dog, Noah....
Lou Storey :: The Fit Test ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: An old friend from college living up in Maine visited my home here in Savannah, Georgia. “Why don’t they clean all the moss off these old trees?” she asked. “Cause,’ I explained, “unlike your snow, our moss...
Deborah Robinson :: Newly Redecorated Villa ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement:As the annual rush to Florida begins each year, there are many issues facing fun-loving retirees. Whether they own a beautiful home, rent a condominium, or camp for the winter, heading South can be a risky proposition. Leaving...
Scott Beard :: Rising Fog ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I wish all these people from California would stop moving here. Rising Fog Born in a back alley on a Thursday, my nativity predisposed me to drinking; but I can’t say it had anything to do with...
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde :: Off Balance ::
SLS: My mother was from Richmond, though I think she was born in Lynchburg. Because my father was from Philly, I grew up thinking I was the product of a mixed marriage. I lived here and there (Virginia, Tennessee, Texas)...
Kevin Brown :: Three Poems ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I currently live in Nashville (questionable as to the Southerness these days, but I’ll still go with it), and I’ve grown up and spent most of my life in Tennessee (outside Chattanooga; the Northeast corner; born in...
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