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A Hill and a Holler

Some memories are a story just waiting to be told.  And memories of family make some of the best stories.  Some of my favorite memories revolve around travel, those family outings where we hit the not so dusty trails of Dixie.  Actually, many modern highways were the byways, the pioneer trails of yesteryear.  Our travel often included extended family, with…
Brett Moffatt
August 8, 2024
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The Tower on the Tyger

The lunch crowd at Figaro was sparse. Regulars, by the looks of them, wore the serious, almost sanctified air of Southern lawyers and insurance men. Across from my hotel stood Newberry’s memory stones, an Ode to the Dead: Regulars, Rebs, Wildcat Doughboys, Yanks, G.I.’s, and the like. Just me at the table, scrolling through photos I shot of the monuments.…
Chase Steely
April 3, 2023
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The Power of Place: True South

If you watch college football, there’s a good chance you’ve seen, or seen an ad for, TrueSouth, a television series on the SEC Network. The show is hosted by John T. Edge, author and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. If, for some reason, you don’t like college football, you should still turn to the SEC Network for this show.…
Elizabeth Stice
February 3, 2023