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~September '04 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Great reading for September! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! The Kiddee Matinee, “Wagon Shorty,” and Downtown Jackson Fifty Years Ago by Jerry Dallas The Travelin’ Ham by Austin Bunch Korean War ~ a four-part series by Andy McNeil Baby Showers and Sneaky Women by Charles Dowdy In Defense of Toes by Beth Boswell Jacks Florida Court Wanders Into Transsexual Swamp by Gene Owens Pecan Tree Oddity by Lonnye Sue Sims Pearson Getting a Lesson in ‘Grandmotherhood’ by Ann Ipock Saturday Morning Matinee by Larry Blanks Delta Blues Symposium by Frances Malpezzi My Career by Gene Goodson Blue Bottle Tree by Charlotte Conner Book review: SNIPPETS by Beth B. Jacks by Augusta Russel Scattergood It’s Good To Be Queen by Allyn Mitchell Evans Pump Water by Tom Givens Full-figured Women Reign by Ed Williams Mr. Foam by Diane Payne Tastes Like Chicken by Newt Harlan Driving Queen Charlotte by Laurie O’Hare Good Ole Days by Jackie Cooper Kamien’s – Since 1904 by Macklyn Hubbell Laundry Day and the Lizard by Pam Hauck Good Day for Swimmin’ by Walter Redden Swivel Hips, Pitiful and Ugly Mug by Bonnie Gibson ________________________ Don't forget to visit the ARCHIVES!

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