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~Summer '05 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Great stories! Great reading! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! Eulogy For My Dog by Frank DiGianni Tribute To My Sister by Hugh Frank Smith The Two-Holer by Judy Lee Green Class Reunion Advice from the BMOC by Beth Boswell Jacks Trestles and Dams by Claude Jones Crayola Colored Memories by Alita DeBerry Legends of Booker County: Daddy Bea by Gilda G. Brown Luster Bayless by Tom Givens Bugs! by Newt Harlan Mother-in-law Survival List by Charles Dowdy Three Delta Days by Frank Nichols Of Dogs and Cats and Other Ethnic Foods by Gene Owens Johnny Cash in the South of France by Terry Everett A Visit To Heaven by Paul Jones Shadows in the Moonlight by Ray Maxie Civil Air Patrol - Arkansas by Andy McNeil Mamas and DNA – Bad Mix! by Tempa D. Worsham On a July Evening in Beaufort by Dana Sieben Laws Hill Fish House by Carl Wayne Dog Bites and Human Rights by Ed Williams Firefly – Southern poetry by Eddie Draper Aging Mailbox = Doghouse by Ann Ipock Living in a Bottled Water World by Bill Melton New Mag! Southern Baby special to USADS Meet Jo McDivitt and TMW! special to USADS Lace Cookies by Phil Bratcher Culinary Kudzu by Keetha D. Reed The Pat Conroy Cookbook: review by Augusta R. Scattergood Gifts Fit for a Mama by Melanie M. Mansfield Southern Fried Chickie – Christy McBrayer special to USADS Fish in a Barrel by Thomas Threadgill My Name is Mr. Bradshaw by Larry Bradshaw The Customer is Always Wrong by Jackie Cooper Summer Memory by Carl Bartlett Bourbon Street by Darby Diana Excerpt: Narrow Gate by Eugene Parker Edge by Claude Jones Cats: My Obie by Tom Givens Coyote Comes To Great River by Terry Everett

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