A Commonplace Book

Category: Southern, Southeast, Southwest US...

  • eating she-crab soup and benne wafers in Charleston, South Carolina
  • learning to cook genuine Southern fried chicken
  • Southern hospitality in grand style
  • old Southern inns
  • digs in the pueblos of southwestern U.S.
  • driving south for the winter
  • Southwest enchiladas with blue-corn muffins
  • The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based. (Carl Sagan)
  • southwestern fried trout
  • Monarch butterflies migrating south
  • Southern corn-souffle pudding
  • the drip-drip-drip manner of talking in the South
  • the pounding of mortar and pestle in a southwestern pueblo as the women prepare the evening meal
  • the southern debate on how to make a mint julep
  • the southernmost U.S. state, Hawaii
  • the Coral Castle in South Florida
  • oak alleys in the South
  • a full-scale replica of the Greek Parthenon in Nashville, the Athens of the South

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