News From Around the South, 10/12 to 10/19
SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. Arts Commission’s interim director steps down, following 2 board members’ resignations None of the three stepping down from their positions mentioned a controversial decision not to fund two LGBTQ+ arts group COLUMBIA — The interim director of the...
Trump’s Final Humiliation of Lindsey Graham
Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you’d feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was...
Savor the Stories of Southern Food
We enjoy gathering at a table filled with our family’s favorite foods. We remember specific dishes and the people who prepared them, special occasions and meaningful traditions. Scholars who study food do too. They also look for insights beyond a single family. “Food...
Love Stays
The one thing you can’t make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest friends. We met more than 40 years ago as two young political activists. She commuted from Oklahoma City to help run the Democratic Platform Committee for...
News From Around the South, 10/5 to 10/12
VIRGINIA: UVA Press cancels book critical of leading Southern food figures In early 2025, University of Virginia Press announced the forthcoming release of “The Strange Career of Cornbread Nationalism.” The book “debunking the mythologized South of the food writing...Obiter Dicta
America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: Ten endangered red wolves exchanged between NC and NY in conservation effort A two-way transfer involving a breeding pair and their five pups aims to strengthen the genetic Read More