Uncle Dude and Aunt Lura lived across the field beside us when I was growing…
Brandon MeeksOctober 4, 2022
Memory is the thing with which we forget. I tend to believe that Memory lives…
Brandon MeeksJuly 28, 2022
Uncle Jim didn’t care much for Lyin’ Ed and nobody really knew why. Some speculated…
Brandon MeeksJuly 14, 2022
I suppose that most men would like to think that they could shoot someone to…
Brandon MeeksJune 8, 2022
A dozen years ago or so, I was pastoring a small country church in the…
Brandon MeeksFebruary 28, 2022
The latest major study issued by a blue-ribbon commission on racism infecting American culture comes…
Boyd CatheyOctober 5, 2021
Editor's note: The following story was told by "Private" John Allen, a Congressmen from Mississippi…
John M. AllenSeptember 3, 2021
Originally published in the March 1998 issue of Reason magazine. Local busybodies target the front…
John Shelton ReedAugust 30, 2021
Once upon a time, somewhere near here, there were thirteen sturdy proprietors. They lived within…
Joseph R. StrombergMay 22, 2020
The news came Thursday, November 15, that country music legend, Virginia-born Roy Clark had passed…
Boyd CatheyNovember 28, 2018
In the spirit of historical course correction, I herewith submit some thoughts to those who…
Joseph R. StrombergNovember 23, 2018
Having traveled in all fifty states, I must admit there are certain areas of this…
Cary LindsayOctober 12, 2018
Back in 1958, when I was fifteen years old, I made the most critical and…
Cary LindsaySeptember 21, 2018
Galactic Imperium News Service (GINS) Special Report: Will Democrats and Republicans in America finally set…
Lewis LibermanSeptember 14, 2018
“Why don’t you get a tractor? You could get more done.” “Don’t need more done.”…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 13, 2018
It was Tuesday evening, September 16th, and people all across America were settling down for…
John MarquardtApril 5, 2018
There was a social order at Tom’s Service Station. It wasn’t posted on the wall. …
Frank ClarkMarch 14, 2018
For as many years as I’ve been an artist, I’ve seen numerous Southerners, Christians, libertarians…
Lewis LibermanFebruary 14, 2018
After the rousing success of Kansas University’s redesigned football uniforms in honor of Jennison’s Jay-hawkers…
Lewis LibermanDecember 1, 2017
William Faulkner said much about Southern writing when he called Henry James "the nicest old…
Bill KoonNovember 3, 2017
Not to be outdone by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s brilliant idea for a new…
Lewis LibermanOctober 27, 2017
Lee Sam and Abner were settin’ on the porch drinking ice-tea one day when the…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 15, 2017
Three long ringing signals from I the driver's horn, and the hunt was over. I…
Henry D. Boykin IIJanuary 12, 2017
Much has been written about Lewis Grizzard by those who knew him better in his…
Rick CartledgeNovember 4, 2016
If I may strain a point and introduce among my "Southern Humorists" a man who…
Mary WashingtonOctober 14, 2016
As I watched my local Montgomery, Alabama news station this morning, I saw that question…
Tom DanielFebruary 1, 2016
Martha Jane Davis (Campbell) was born in Reed Creek, Henry County, Virginia in 1840. Her…
Joscelyn DunlopNovember 12, 2015
Coal miners have their canaries; we have colinus virginiánus, the bobwhite quail. Like the canary…
John DevannyFebruary 9, 2015
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