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~Summer '07 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Summertime and the Reading is Easy by Augusta R. Scattergood Thoughts From the Southern Road by Gene Owens The Care and Feeding of Southern Children by Elizabeth A. West Daddy Took a Gun by Kathy Cohen Summary of a Lifetime by Herman Sanders Two Poems by Eddie E. Draper On Turning 60... by Gilda G. Brown Poems by Carolyn Bertram-Arnold The First Confederate April by Randy Hill Mr. Tucker by Leroy Morganti Paul Rainey ~ Legendary Figure by Mary A. Scobey Mrs. Schubert Saves the Day by Keetha D. Reed The Elusive Snipe by Michael Gafford Southern Cooking! by Carole M. Rodger Makeovers For Men by Ann Ipock Too Black To Turn Back by John Milton Wesley Mississippi ~ The Soul of Dixie by Carl Wayne Hardeman Spongebob, President Bush and a Banana by Charles W. Dowdy Railroad Money by Newt Harlan A Sea Story by Kent Fletcher Kudzu ~ The Alien Invader by Marshall Dean The Gardener by Mike Windham Killer Was His Name by Anne McKee The Fishing Trip by Ralph Gordon Summer Recipes! by Phil Bratcher Pelican Ballet by Jim Goudelock Toads, Cooters, Tubs and Ying by Pat Keadle Nose or Bat? by Claude Jones Medicinal Grease by Brenda Blakely Be Suspicious of a Skinny Cook by Arnold Dyre Remembering MuMu by Alyson T. Dolan Online Dating by Jackie Cooper A Little Clean Dust... by Alita DeBerry It Was a Dark and Stormy Night! by Beth Boswell Jacks ______________ Don't forget to visit the ARCHIVES ______________

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