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Home - I Home - II Writers Articles Links Stories from the Press Snippets Editor's Bio E-mail Message Board Bulletin Board Submissions Free Update Link to USADS USADS BACK ISSUES Sept~2004 Oct~2004 Nov~2004 Dec~2004 Winter~2005 Spring~2005 Summer~2005 Fall~2005 Winter~2005 Spring~2006 Summer~2006 Fall~2006 Winter~2006 Spring~2007 Summer~2007 Fall~2007 Feature pages may be accessed back to October, 2002. USADS ~~Most Popular Pages~~ Southern Names Southern Expressions Southern Humor Southern Memoirs Southern Cooking Bottletrees Southern Fiction Great stories! Great reading! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! Submit a story Great Deep South photography! Visit these web sites to view beautiful images of the Southland. Will Jacks at Wiljax.com Melanie Mansfield at MelanieMansfield.com. 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 JAN KARON ~ "It's the South. Oh, if only people could know. We lost the Civil War. Fine. But guess what? We got to hold on to something. With that loss came a gain because we got the industrial revolution later than the North. They were up there cranking out their machinery and running things with conveyor belts. We were down here plowing with a mule and telling stories." FLANNERY O'CONNOR ~ "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." W. J. CASH ~ "The South, one might say, is a tree with many age rings, with its limbs and trunk bent and twisted by all the winds of the years, but with its tap root in the Old South." DORIS BETTS ~ "If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them." WILLIAM FAULKNER ~ "[Man] goes on, he continues, he has outlived the dinosaur, he has outlived the atom bomb, and I'm convinced in time he can even outlive the wheel." JIMMY CARTER ~ "The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself -- always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity." GAIL GILCHRIEST ~ "The gentleman pulls trout from a babbling brook with fly tackle, while the Good Old Boy shocks catfish out of the bayou using dynamite or an old crank telephone." ~~~ More Stories from the Archives Valerie Clark ~ Bettye R. Gibson ~ Bill Boswell ~ Tom Givens ~ Bonnie Horton ~ Betty Beamguard ~ Floyd Shaman ~ Eddie Draper ~ Charles East ~ Gene Goodson ~ Margaret A. Mitchell ~ Melba Washington Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Click here! ~Southern Speak~ NARY ~not~ Nary a one of those girls married a decent sort. They wudn't raised like that. For more great Southern expressions, please click here. @2001 ~ 2007 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated Dec/07

~Winter '07 Featured Articles~ _______________________________ Greetings! Enjoy holiday favorites from our dusty archives! * Lonnye Sue Pearson - Peace On Earth * Newt Harlan - The Pony * Bill Fullerton - A Special Christmas Present * Beth Boswell Jacks - Oranges and Nuts * Charles Dowdy - A Letter To Santa * Hugh Frank Smith - Deep South Holiday Travel * USADS Readers - Holiday Recipes * Wayne Carter - Thaxton Christmas * Beth Boswell Jacks - Sparkle Plenty Bombs * Dana Sieben - Christmas Eve * Robert Hall - They Came From the Sky * Michael Gafford - Christmas Journey ~ 1964 * Kent Fletcher - The BEST Homemade Chili * Beth Boswell Jacks - Worst Little Christmas Pageant Ever! * Don Drane - Deep Fried Turkey * Jane Riley - Brother Star, Sister Moon * Walter Redden - Christmas of Yesteryear * Beverly C. Lucey - Christmas Tea... * Randy Hill - General Lee and Santa ~~~~~~~ How 'bout some brand new stories for winter reading? * Beth Boswell Jacks - Ben Skelton ~ Peace Corps Volunteer * Liz West - A Vietnam Christmas * Mary A. Scobey - Les Pommes a Paris * Peggy Rice Wright - Shoe Shopping With Luck * Claude Jones - Riding Down Trees * Marshall Dean - Barefoot, Red-faced ... * Newt Harlan - Southern Fried * C. W. Hardeman - Sweet Taters * Eddie Draper - Poems * Gene Owens - Ah For The Life Of A Freegan * Lance Smith - Flowers While You're Living * Anne B. McKee - To Meet Again ... * David Norris - How I Learned To Read Southern Food Thoughts for the Day: "The Moonpie is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact." ~ William Ferris "If we're going to cook a mess of greens we want to eat them with a mess of people." ~ Julia Reed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are a USADEEPSOUTH writer, please read this update from time to time: Letter from the Editor Thanks so much for your contributions to our site!

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