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Home - I Home - II Articles Links Stories from the Press Snippets Message Board Editor's Bio Bulletin Board Submissions Free Update E-mail Writers Link to USADS USADS BACK ISSUES May~2004 Jun~2004 Jul~2004 Aug~2004 Sept~2004 Oct~2004 Nov~2004 Dec~2004 Winter~2005 Spring~2005 Summer~2005 Fall~2005 Winter~2005 "SNIPPETS columns make fun reading because Beth Jacks is always ready to laugh at herself and then move on from there, lifting the ordinary to a new and unique perspective or reducing the pompous with a few strokes of common sense." - John Howell, publisher, The Batesville Panolian SNIPPETS INFO 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. ____________________ Southern Talk "There they sat on our pantry shelves – the jars of scuppernong jelly next to Cousin Maggie’s bread-and-butter pickles next to Cousin Addie’s chow-chow, on the shelf above Aunt Mattie Steadman’s fig preserves and Mrs. Bullock’s pear relish. And on the shelf above that, a row of empty jars, washed and rinsed and ready to be returned, for that was the understanding between them." -- Charles East "Boy, but the barbecue is still fine and the air is still clean and you can drive along in a car and tell what who is having for dinner." -- Ralph Ellison "There is no escaping the conviction that fishing in the South is pursued for its own sake, and not as a means of recuperation between business deals." -- Clarence Cason "Junior Kimbrough is the beginning and the end of music. Ain't no one can play like him. No one. There is no greater sound than Junior's cottonpatch blues." -- Charlie Feathers "A cabin on a hill in the region of Mississippi or Louisiana, standing in the open, stained with nature's patina, built from the wood of the surrounding trees, expresses the harmony of architecture and environment that some men spend a lifetime trying to copy." -- John McCrady "Greens are good for you but it's the drippings that make you want to eat 'em." -- Dexter Weaver "[My grandmother] wrote about the advent of trains, telephones, and her first Coke. She described Marechal Niel roses, a Jersey bull that always broke through the fence, and seeing the steamboat Rosalie when she was five." -- Marion Barnwell "In most of America, probably because of television, stories are drying up. Not in New Orleans. They grow in abundance here, like the flowering vines, and the myrtles, the bananas, and the figs.” -- Andrei Codrescu "Ask any Deltan the disadvantages in living here, and chances are 100 to 1 that a mosquito will turn up somewhere in the answer." -- Dorothy Shawhan Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Click here! ________________ ~Southern Speak~ lap baby ~ the youngest ~ Uh huh, that T-Tommy was a real surprise; he’s the lap baby. For more great Southern expressions, please click here. ____________________ "If you want to, you can say that Southern humor deals with typical concerns of the region: dirt, chickens, defeat, family, religion, prejudice, collard greens, politics and diddie wah diddie. But are not these concerns, boiled down, pretty much like everybody else's?" - Roy Blount Jr. @2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated Mar/06

~Spring '06 Featured Articles~ ________________________________________________________ * Charles Dowdy, Jr. - Hair plucking and Gandhi * Dawn Dillon Barrett - Alice learns to swing… * Dave Hovey - The Straw Man * Gene Owens - Following a Union private through the War * Wayne L. Carter - Two Fiddlers * Jim Lutzweiler - Fantasies of Cheryl Freed * Dana Sieben - Bobo * Terry Everett - Tao T Gets Two * Newt Harlan - Big Hair * Don Drane - Yancy’s Marker * Kent Fletcher - Rain! * Eddie Draper - I Wonder Where That Breeze Has Been * Ray Maxie - Caddo Lake ~ Texas * Tom Givens - Reunions * Roy Ryan - Essays from a Mississippi Preacher * Beth Boswell Jacks - Robbie Goodson’s book * Sandi Keaton-Wilson - Two Poems * Alita DeBerry - Bird Songs * K. G. Sims - Hand Grabbin’ * Rick Hendrix - Waking Early * Jackie Cooper - Men and Their Automobiles * Ann Ipock - Training Men To Clean * Laura Bradbard - My Hybrid Children * Claude Jones - Tripping * Walter B. Jackson - Uncle Buck * Cappy Rearick - Hope Cometh in the Morning * Patricia Harrington - Innocent Beginnings * Carolyn Bertram-Arnold - Dogwood Winter * Phil Bratcher - Best Barbecue Sauce Ever! * Carl Wayne Hardeman - Ode to Bermuda Grass * Bob Vance Moulder - Kudzu, Homebrew and Dinner on the Ground * Jason Offutt - On Being Dad * Eileen Murray - Things * Aileen Ridings Bennett - Brudder and Me * Jeanine Craig - How a man’s best friend said goodby * Thomas Lynn - Belles of the South * Shirley A. Moll - Magic Words * Dave Norris - No Durian Allowed * Rick Hendrix - Jan-baby * Beth Boswell Jacks - Where’s George?

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