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~Winter ‘08~ Featured Articles Best reading on the Net! _______________________________ Greetings! Enjoy these great stories and poems from U.S. Deep South writers. * Bill Fullerton - Where Were You? * Lonnye Sue Sims Pearson - A Tangerine Christmas * Newt Harlan - Southern Words * Curtis Fesler - Hi ho! It's Off to the Wild We Go! * Kent Fletcher - Twenty-four Hours * Eddie E. Draper - Eddie's Poems * Peggy Rice Wright - The Battle of the Bedspreads * Leroy Morganti - Camping With Preachers * Chloe Tuttle - My Old Red Truck * Sylvia D. Davis - Encounter at the Fuzzy Duck Cafe * Abe Draper - Two Poems * Mary A. Scobey - Old? Who, me? * Edna Earle Crews - Balancing the Equation * Maxine Sommers - Riding Wild Horses... * Betty Galloway - A Christmas I Will Never Forget * Curtis Johnson - Missing Mississippi * Gail Livesay - The Good Ol' Days * C. W. Hardeman - Review: 'The Barefoot Farmer' * Ralph Gordon - The Winter of '63 * Marsh Dean - Keep the Gloom Away * Ralph Jones - How Green the Grass... * Phil Bratcher - Noogie Howard * Gene Owens - What Would Fountain Inn Sage Think of Obama? * Mike Windham - Customer Service * Jackie Cooper - Facebook, the New World, and Me * Augusta Russel Scattergood - 'Tis the Season for Reading * David Norris - Putting Things Right * Beth Boswell Jacks - Aaah . . . Those Awesome Altos! * USADS Readers - More Southern Expressions! ~~~~~~~~~~ ~Southern Wisdom~ "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

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