News from Around the South 7/22 – 7/29
Virginia: Confederate Marine Re-enactors Join Appomattox Show APPOMATTOX, Va. — Friday evening’s wind blew, catching the Confederate Marine flag at the head of a recreated Civil War campsite and whipping it about. The six tents surrounding the flag were...News from Around the South 6/17 – 6/24
Virginia: VMI Scene for new Civil War Movie about Battle of New Market The statue has mourned for more than a century. “Virginia Mourning Her Dead” symbolizes the losses the Virginia Military Institute suffered in the Battle of New Market. Soon, it won’t be the only...News from Around the South 6/10 – 6/17
Alabama: Poll: State Should Keep Jefferson Davis Holiday MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama should keep its state holiday in recognition of the birthday of Jefferson Davis, said a majority of respondents to an AL.com poll. AL.com posed the question yesterday, when state...A CSA Library?
This spring will be remembered, by history junkies at least, for the opening of a major new institution, one named after a polarizing leader, devoted to a divisive period, subsidized by taxpayers and stationed in the South. I’m not talking about the presidential...Obiter Dicta
Just four days before she died, Dolly Parton said she was being treated for health problems that she “didn’t pay Read More
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KENTUCKY: Kentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost. CLARK COUNTY, Ky. – Kenneth Anderson’s father taught him what to look for in high-quality tobacco, cured for Read More