COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2011 Most of the teams in the SEC West have eleven games under their belt. LSU and Alabama have consumed the rest of the West in a fairly impressive manner. I realize that LSU still has to play Arkansas and Alabama must face Auburn on the […]
FIFTY-FOUR YEARS LATER Clista Hunter and G.R. Hardin grew up on adjacent farms in Bolivar County, Mississippi. They could see each other’s houses just across some of the best “ice cream “cotton land this side of the Nile. They have been best friends since toddlerhood. The first classmate […]
SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR One of the great myths of the American way of life and of the capitalistic system in general is the concept that secretly everyone wants to be in business for themselves. The truth is that most people don’t have the temperament […]
RIVER TERRACE RESTAURANT It has been my experience that Cajun and Creole restaurants located outside of South Louisiana generally fall short of the mark. I felt this apprehension as we entered the River Terrace Restaurant in Columbia, Tennessee. My local friends, who are well traveled and have a […]
IN DEFENSE OF GRITS There are many traditional southern dishes that I wouldn’t touch with a stick. I don’t want to be in the room with chitterlings, nor can I abide mountain oysters or rooster fries. I think buttermilk should be fed to the hogs, or in the […]
In the spring of 2011, my first book, Delta Days, Tales of the Mississippi Delta was published and introduced to the trade. The book was well received by a regional audience and supported by positive reviews and a summer of book signing events across the southeastern U.S. My […]
October 2011 This is the first of what I hope to be an ongoing series of special editions of my newsletter. From time to time I will feature a special person, place or event that I feel is worthy of a more in depth effort than the limited […]
When I received the invitation to sign Delta Days at Words and Afterwords in Hardy, I had to look up the little town on a map. I found Hardy just below the Missouri – Arkansas state line in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. Even though it is […]
SHRIMP & GRITS AT CROOK’S CORNER CHAPEL HILL, NC Shrimp and grits are the staple of the tidewater and there as many opinions in the Carolina’s about their relative quality as they are opinions about BBQ in Memphis. I happen to like both shrimp and grits, separately or […]
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