—Join A British-accented White Guy On His Pilgrimage Back In Time To The Mississippi Delta Blues of the 1930s South I once spent most ….
Category: The South
Birdwatching on Edisto was the working title of my second novel but people either thought is was non-fiction (a field guide) or were confused about ….
This is Pineapple Hill, my beach house in a cow pasture in rural South Carolina, where I do my writing in a third floor office, ….
“FULL OF EYES” BRINGS A LONG BURIED TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT Author Paul Barra goes where others wouldn’t—into the true story of a Charleston, South ….
To me, it like a dog chasing its tail. First stereotyping blacks. Now stereotyping whites. ‘Round and ‘round it goes. Unable, it seems, to let ….
There’s lots of places I’ve loved experiencing. Topping the list are ones Crystal (aka Marianne in my novel Blue Rubber Pool) loved too. Savannah, for ….
I’ve lived in the South long enough to believe I’ve heard all the uniquely Southern sayings ever uttered. Then came cattywampus. I am still a ….
In addition to his many short stories, Ron Yates, a Georgian now living in Alabama, authored the novel Ben Stempton’s Boy—wonderful writing that shows the ….
Out here in the South Carolina boonies we don’t cry over broken hot tub skimmers. We make a splint with paint stir paddles then wrap ….
I joke about dinosaurs, Great White Sharks, the Carolina Lizard Man, and other strange things in the Jonesville Reservoir (aka The Jonesville Town Pond—a forty-acre ….
Cricket has come to the Upstate. How cool. However, where it’s played is not close to Pineapple Hill. Bummer. It’s a fun-to-watch bat and ball ….
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), also known as papaw, Indiana banana, Hoosier banana, Michigan banana, and poor man’s banana, is the only temperate member of the tropical ….