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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 Aug~2004 Sept~2004 Oct~2004 Nov~2004 Dec~2004 Winter~2005 Spring~2005 Summer~2005 Fall~2005 Winter~2005 Spring~2006 Summer~2006 Fall~2006 NEW! "Beth Jacks shines as one of Mississippi's most talented writers. Her 'Snippets' are neither scraps nor fragments, but rather brief wondrous journeys into modern Southern life, filled with wit and humor...." - Luke Lampton Editor/Publisher The Magolia Gazette SNIPPETS II 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 "Snow in the South is wonderful. It has a kind of magic and a mystery that it has nowhere else. And the reason for this is that it comes to people in the South not as the grim, unyielding tenant of Winter’s keep, but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret North." - Thomas Wolfe "I saw it at night. It got dark and it was December and those lights came on and I said, ‘Gosh, I must be in heaven.’ Then a mosquito bit me and I knew I wasn’t." -- Joe Sampite, on his first visit to Nachitoches, Louisiana “Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.” -- Eudora Welty "I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." -- Harlan Miller "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart, filled it too with a melody that would last forever." -- Bess S. Aldrich “The South always makes good reading. It features the virtues and vices, writ large, of the nation as a whole. It's good entertainment. It's high drama.” -- Fred Hobson "Several years ago, a research group polled 1,000 folks, asking what they did with fruitcake gifts. Results were: 38% gave it away; 28% actually ate it; 13% used it as a doorstop; 9% threw it out to the birds; 4% tossed it in the garbage; 8% couldn't remember . . ." -- Beth Boswell Jacks Snippets Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Click here! ________________ ~Southern Speak~ Sho'nuff pronunciation of ~~sure enough~~ “He is sho’nuff one firecracker of a lawyer, I’m here to tell you.” 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, 2007 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated Dec/06

~Winter '06 Featured Articles~ ________________________________________________________ This quarter, enjoy favorites from the dusty archives! Holiday Stories * Charles Dowdy, Jr. - Babyroom Racket * Don Drane - Deep Fried Turkey * Gene Owens - The Walmart Paradox * Wayne Carter - Thaxton Christmas * Bill Fullerton - In The Briarpatch * Dana Sieben - Christmas Eve * Lonnye Sue Pearson - The Cabbage Patch Battle * Newt Harlan - Smushed Pennies * Gilda Griffith Brown - Mind Dancing * Kent Fletcher - Southern Roots Truths * Eddie Draper - Poems * Ray Maxie - A Country Kid’s Thorn in the Flesh * Tom Givens - Ben Johnson ~ actor * Randy Hill - A Southern Homecoming * Jerry Dallas - Capitol Street: Then and Now * Gene Goodson - Rockin’ With Nanny * Alita DeBerry - A Funeral To Remember * Jackie Cooper - It’s All About Me * Ann Ipock - Sushi in the South * Michael Gafford - Christmas Journey ~ 1964 * Eva Braswell - Christmas, 1953 * Phil Bratcher - Phil’s Recipes: Pesto * Margaret Anne Mitchell - The Fabulous Stuffed Egg * Carl Wayne Hardeman - Southern Snakes * Kathy Rhodes - The Scout * Walter B. Jackson - A Nun's Tale * Melanie Mansfield - Two Poems * Betty Beamguard - Arguing With A Snake * Bobby Joe Moon - Growing Up Chinese In Mississippi * Rebecca Reinwalt - Southern Star * Marshall Dean - Malapropisms * Clyde Boswell - Snowball * Harvey Gardner - Shopping For A New Gallbladder * Hugh Frank Smith - Circle of Love: Rachael * Pam Smith Williamson - Squirrel Tails, James Dean, and Piccolino Shoes * Dave Norris - Stories About Bud and Mama * Claude Jones - Who Has The Edge? * Beth Boswell Jacks - Worst Little Christmas Pageant Ever!

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