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~Summer '06 Featured Articles~ ________________________________________________________ * Wayne L. Carter - New Gate * Dawn Dillon Barrett - Mothers are sort of like that * Charlotte Buchanan - A Delta Tan * Beth Boswell Jacks - Trail rides, cantles and beans * Gene Owens - Chicken grease, animal parts or Bourbon? * Jerry Dallas - Capitol Street: Then and now * Beverly C. Lucey - Songs of the South * Dana Sieben - Rock Springs * Walter B. Jackson - A Nun’s Tale * Susan Sims Moody - 100.5 Degrees and Partly Grouchy * Newt Harlan - Multitasking * Rebecca Reinwalt - Southern Star * Kent Fletcher - Where is the Mississippi Delta? * Eddie Draper - Grounded * Ray Maxie - Land Poor * Tom Givens - Kornfeld's Department Store * Wes Wilson - Southern names for the ba-bee * Dave Norris - Sometimes, chaos evolves into order * K. G. Sims - Grits * Alita DeBerry - Paint my world in pastels * Shirley Moll - The Hilltop Inn * Charles Dowdy - The Family Opinion Statement * Jackie Cooper - Fear Itself * Ann Ipock - Girlfriends are like diamonds * Janice Harris - Creeper * Claude Jones - Rewind * Pat Keadle - I spent time in jail! * Carl Wayne Hardeman - Southern weights and measurements * Asa Sparks - Uncle Willie and the G. P. * Thomas Lynn - The hills of Georgia * Phil Bratcher - Southern Breakfasts * Jeanine Craig - Delilah’s Unrolled Cabbage * Betty Beamguard - The proper way to litter! * Marti Lawrence - Ready for the booby hatch * Monica Murphy - Battle Scars * Tiffany Cross - Ten reasons why I miss Texas * Lance Smith - It may be the last…

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