If you have a sweet tooth and love pecans, then there’s a wonderful place on the interstate between Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama that will fulfill your desires. Priester’s Pecans, a family-owned business, is located on I-65 near the town of Fort Deposit, and has almost every variety of pecan candy you can imagine. The candies ...
We live in North Carolina, a region not internationally known for its wines. Aside from the Western Carolina mountains, home to the Biltmore House Winery in Asheville, our state is notably lacking in the kind of flinty, slaty, gravelly, stony soil for which, as Backyard Homestead author Carleen Madigan puts it, grapes tend to “have ...
Strolling around the historic square in Oxford, one can truly understand the meaning of quiet beauty. While small, the Square is a magnificent mixture of bohemian ambience and traditional southern culture. The shops are quaint, straight off the pages of an English romance. From Neilson’s department store (pronounced Nelson’s, don’t ask me why; although I ...
It has been said that the farther a slave was from gang labor in the South, the closer he was to freedom. Thus a slave in the North had a far better chance of attaining freedom, and even as a slave had a greater understanding of what free life was like. An Abolitionist tone echoed ...
Ralph Ellison’s nameless protagonist in “Battle Royal” is a young African American struggling to find his place in society in the early twentieth century American South. Rather than provide the reader with an essay of statistics and facts about racial discrimination, Ellison chose to create a short story full of imagery and satire that allows ...
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