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Home Articles Links Stories from the Press Snippets Analecta Message Board Editor's Bio Bulletin Board Submissions Free Update E-mail Link to USADS USADS BACK ISSUES Jan~2003 Feb~2003 Mar~2003 Apr~2003 May~2003 Jun~2003 Jul~2003 Aug~2003 Sep~2003 Oct~2003 Nov~2003 ___________________ ARTICLES ABOUT SOUTHERN PEOPLE AND PLACES . . . AND ANYTHING ELSE WE FANCY! One of the best sites on the Net for readers, writers, storytellers, travelers, nostalgia buffs, and gossips. USADS welcomes your articles and comments! ___________________ Southern Talk "Snow in the South is wonderful. It has a kind of magic and a mystery that it has nowhere else. And the reason for this is that it comes to people in the South not as the grim, unyielding tenant of Winter’s keep, but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret North. - Thomas Wolfe "I saw it at night. It got dark and it was December and those lights came on and I said, ‘Gosh, I must be in heaven.’ Then a mosquito bit me and I knew I wasn’t." -- Joe Sampite, on his first visit to Nachitoches, Louisiana "Do not ever give a Queen a home appliance as a gift. Period. The end." -- Jill Conner Browne, “The Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of Love” "Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is our friends and family wreathed in smiles." -- Unknown "The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing others' loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." -- W. C. Jones "It’s fortunate that war is so terrible, or else we should love it too much." -- Robert E. Lee "But if by some miracle, and all our struggle, the Earth is spared, only justice to every living thing will save humankind." - Alice Walker “Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.” -- Eudora Welty "I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." -- Harlan Miller "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart, filled it too with a melody that would last forever." -- Bess S. Aldrich "I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe what I'm doing." -- Ray Charles "My definition of a New South would be a South in which it never occurred to anybody to mention the New South." -- Walker Percy “The South always makes good reading. It features the virtues and vices, writ large, of the nation as a whole. It's good entertainment. It's high drama.” -- Fred Hobson ___________________ Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Click here! ___________________ ~Southern Speak~ "Christmas gift!" ~~holiday greeting~~ Once more common in the Deep South than "Merry Christmas!" The first person to say it traditionally received a gift. For more great Southern expressions, please click here. @2001, 2002, 2003 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated Dec/‘03

~December '03 Featured Articles~ A Collection of Holiday Stories From the USADEEPSOUTH archives comes this listing of wonderful holiday stories. Nice assortment of humor and nostalgia . . . with a few recipes as well. The Cabbage Patch Battle by Lonnye Sue Pearson With a fist! And a knee! And a jab to the middle . . . Lonnye Sue gets her Christmas Cabbage Patch doll. Well, what else could a mama do? The Bride of Frankenstein by Beth Boswell Jacks Stumped with your gift giving? Got somebody on your list who has everything? Does this person have one of Floyd Shaman's sculptures? Take a look. A Letter To Santa by Charles W. Dowdy Reckon Santa knows what a Beyblade with a Megavolt Launcher is? He'd better--this kid is bent on mayhem. What can we say? Dowdy is one hilarious writer. Dawg Days by David Norris Surely there are none of these during the holidays. But then again, Norris says Dawg Days are inevitable. Cute article with David's special touch. Taking a week off from retirement to do nothing by Gene Owens How 'bout a little vacation before the holidays? Sounded like a good idea to Owens. Whatta guy! And whatta writer! Meet Bert Goolsby South Carolina writer Author of several books, including the delightful "Sweet Potato Biscuits and Other Stories," Goolsby is one to enjoy. Welcome to USADS, Bert. Christmas of Yesteryear by Walter Redden "Christmas, 1951, I was halfway around the world from home," writes Walter Redden, "and it suddenly dawned on me that I would not be home for Christmas." Serving in Korea in the military, Redden finds himself forgetting he's not home with family and friends. Read why. Sing a Song by Dean Sparks Here's a sweet 'un from the daddy of a passel of little girls. Sparks is a lucky man, and he knows it. The Bomb by Kent Fletcher Let's go back to the '60s with Kent Fletcher. Great memories! Morgan Freeman by Tom Givens Morgan Freeman, one of the greatest actors ever, adds to the festivities of Givens's homecoming weekend. Enjoy the story and the picture. Brother Star, Sister Moon by Jane Riley Riley pens this beautiful Christmas poem . . . and adds a yummy cookie recipe--both from her book titled Flavored With Love. Student With A Special Heart by Barbara Robinson What better time of year than the holidays to think about organ donation. Robinson tells the story of a wonderful little boy and gives us instructions on how to give the greatest gift of all--life. Baptists and Borsch by Clyde Boswell Boswell shares this heart-warming story about his trip to the Ukraine. He reflects on his blessings and urges readers to do the same. How true . . . and what better time for such reflection? They Came From The Sky by Robert Hall Ohmygoodness. Hall is at it again. Telling secrets from small town Arkansas. Be ready to grin. Malapropisms by Marshall Dean Marsh Dean is back with his thoughts on malapropisms. Let's hear it for the English language! Deep Fried Turkey by Don Drane We had to pull this great article from the archives. One of our most popular stories, this one gives readers step by step instructions for cooking the best dadgum turkey ever. ______________________ And why not enjoy these "oldies but goodies"? Shlanda’s Story by Diane Payne Fish and Quips by Lad Moore Micky’s Woods by Carl Schultz Where Y’all From? by Carl Bartlett The Day The KKK Passed My Way by Larry Pace The Cops From Madison, Alabama by Steven Gorelick

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