James Huneycutt :: Drug Policy Memo ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The author is an ex-offender who runs a successful plumbing company in Virginia. He scribbles on the backs of invoices, estimates and parts lists. These scraps accumulate on the dashboard of his plumbing van until he can...
John Jacobson :: 1979 ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in the western Catskill Mountains, at the northern edge of Appalachia, south of the Adirondacks, most of New England and of course Canada. We’re south of a lot here. Anyway, I try to write about...
Jordan Thornton :: Youth Grouping ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up falling asleep to the sound of a box fan in the window. I’ll stop at any fruit stand that’s selling boiled peanuts. There aren’t many bodies of water that I won’t swim in. My...
William Heath :: Preacher Knox; Jail, No Bail; Tales from Liberty ::
Southern Literature: For five years I taught American literature and creative writing at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, the favorite school of the antebellum aristocracy in the South; I am the author of an award-winning novel about the civil rights...
Richard Collins :: Cement Buddha and The Past Is Not Past ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement My first two wives (it didn’t work out; it didn’t work out) were from Southern California, where I grew up, but the third (the charm) is from Louisiana. Her Cajun father – who spoke no English until...
John Haymaker :: Reprise of a Vanishing Act ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: You might say I was halfway to Dixie the day I was born on account of the Kansas twang I picked up from my parents, who raised me in Chicago shortly after my birth. The twang was...
Erin Savage :: When a Tea Party Is Not a Tea Party: An Unwanted Invite ::
Southern legitimacy statement: My parents dragged me away from the home I loved in Louisville, to put down roots in the frigid Midwest. My time residing in Louisville, the home of my earliest memories, was well spent though. When I...
Chance Jungling :: An Ode to Steve ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am not from the south. I grew up in small town Iowa, surrounded by alcoholics. I spent many days growing up riding around with my grandpa in his truck, him drinking Busch light the whole time...
James Ryer :: An Italian Life Journey ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have lived almost exclusively in the South, but that has never fully defined me. I find that definition in how I think about and how I respond to my orange blossom scented environment. For the last...
J Eddie Edwards :: Here ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am certified in using picket fence, rubber flooring, and duct tape to seal a bedroom for a Florida CAT4 hurricane before running inside to drink. My blood is mostly orange juice, BBW sauce, and a form...
Albert Dixon :: Storms of My Youth ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the South, I live in the South: Athens, Georgia. I’ve tried to leave, a few times, but I always come back. Nowhere else feels like home. Storms of My Youth There was a...
Harlan Yarbrough :: Git Along Home ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I lived in the South (which began when I was about three months old), I didn’t fit in; I was different. When I later attended a university in and therefore necessarily lived in Yankee country, I...
Marsha Owens :: Boarded Up ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Richmond, VA, I’ve made it my forever home. My paternal grandpa was a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay, and to this day, I’m a seafood snob. I married an ex-Amishman to whom all things Southern...
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