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~October '04 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Great reading for October! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! There is a mouse in my jeans by Jim Hester Tattoo's mailbag ~letters to summer and hurricanes~ by Gene Goodson Leaving plane phobia behind by Ann Ipock One man's treasure by Marta Martin Toothpick stabbings and stinky suits by Charles Dowdy Out of the mouths of babes and grandmothers by Beth Boswell Jacks Dan Rather and the Texas truth by Gene Owens Breast Cancer Survival by Janie Givens Miller Testimony from a foodaholic by Lonnye Sue Sims Pearson The universe is my mother by Allyn Mitchell Evans Mystery and mayhem for October by Augusta Russel Scattergood Country boy hits the road by David Norris Never too old to hurt by Jackie K. Cooper The South rules! by Ed Williams Southern spotlight: Bill Givens special to USADS Remembering by Newt Harlan Belly rubbin' music by Tom Givens Poems - V by Phil Bratcher Memoir by Rosebud Givens Davis Mississippi artist: Carol Roark special to USADS Master teacher: Effie Glassco by Walter Redden Two new Southern books by Brett Benson ________________________ Don't forget to visit the ARCHIVES! ________________________ Last Word: "Who but God could have come up with the divine fact of okra?" - James Dickey

Southern stories, humor, travel, news, links, poetry, personal essays, memoirs, and lots more. No bells and whistles, just good reading. Best viewed with IE.