News from Around the South 8/26 to 9/2

by | Sep 2, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Fall Civil War Cruises Set CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After an unusually wet summer across the Southeast, everyone is looking forward to drier fall weather. Soon brilliant colors will decorate the mountains surrounding Chattanooga. The Tennessee River Gorge is a...

News from Around the South 8/19-8/26

by | Aug 26, 2013 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized

Florida: Controversy brewing over portrait of Robert E. Lee FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Lee County chapter of the NAACP wants to hold demonstrations because the county refuses to take down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee that hangs in the commissioners’ meeting...

News from Around the South 7/29 – 8/5

by | Aug 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Brown’s Mill Battlefield Celebrates Grand Opening NEWNAN, Ga. — History came alive last week when more than 350 people came to take in the sights at the grand opening of the Brown’s Mill Battlefield Civil War Historic Site located south of Newnan...

News from Around the South 7/1 – 7/8

by | Jul 8, 2013 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized

Virginia: Federal Judge Sides with Lexington over Confederate Flag Ban Lexington’s ban on flying the Confederate flag — and other non-governmental colors — from city-owned light poles does not violate a heritage group’s right of free speech, a federal appeals court...

The Southern Drawl on Film

by | May 14, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“There are things you can get away with in this world, and things you can’t.” The voice is Matthew McConaughey’s, and days after seeing him in “Mud,” I can close my eyes and hear him still — a simple line echoing with the mysteries...