Get Your Ticket to the Savannah Food & Wine Festival
Stars of the culinary industry descend on coastal Georgia this week.
The Forest Retreat
Channel your inner Thoreau and escape to Homochitto National Forest in south Mississippi for a weekend of solitude.
Literary Friday, Edition 80
Notes from the Louisiana Book Festival, giveaway for Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Fannie Flagg on her female heroes and why Harper Lee is suing her hometown in Literary News. The Georgia Literary Festival and an Evening With Scarlett and Rhett in Literary Events, plus new fiction in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
The Spin
Every morning, Gary called his parents back in Albany. It was the least he could do. The phone rang several times, and then there was silence, followed by a loud clacking noise, piercing feedback, a dull thud, and finally, his mother’s voice. “Hello? Who is it?”
Harper Lee Sues Her Hometown
Is the real-life Maycomb exploiting its connection to To Kill A Mockingbird?
The Golden Rule in a Digital Age
Carolina Junior Cotillions holds on to the idea that manners are essential to the upbringing of young Southerners.
Tally Ho! Fox Hunting Season Opens in Georgia's Lake Country
The ceremonial fox hunt in Thomson, Georgia, celebrated its 48th anniversary on Saturday.
Literary Friday, Edition 79
The Undramatic Life of Shirley Ann Grau & the Louisiana Book Festival this weekend, Wiley Cash on libraries, Faulkner's Jazz Age drawings and honoring the dead through the Southern Gothic in Literary News. Georgia Literary Festival in events, plus a poem about Edna Pontellier in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Loyalties, Savannah
Nellie Gordon died alone in her bed; her son's wife, waiting in a room adjacent, watched William Gordon's apparition