Southern Culture Posts

Bourbon With Heart

Bourbon with Heart is a new nonprofit that uses Kentucky’s world-renowned Bourbon industry to elevate the Bluegrass State’s art and culture scene.

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Rare Breed

The story of a southern breed that almost vanished, the Marsh Tacky, and the man who fought to save them.

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How I Came To Give Up On Writing- Remembering Dickey

I once fashioned myself as a writer. Launched an underground newspaper. Grew my hair long in a bohemian style. Published an article or two here and there, won a poetry contest, too. I had all the bases covered. All I needed was a touch of insanity and a round of alcoholism on the side to be the…

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Hidden Stories in Taxidermy: Cocaine Bear

A dead body in someone’s backyard in Tennessee, a plane crash in the North Carolina mountains, a dead bear in Georgia, Waylon Jennings’ house in Las Vegas, and millions of dollars of Colombian blow: Let’s connect the dots.

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The Gray Man: 200 Years Later

We are at the end of October, but we have over a month left in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. We have already had one major storm with hurricane Ian causing historic damage in Florida. Reports say Ian is the worst hurricane to hit Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane slammed into the Keys with winds…

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Spaghetti: The Scotland County Mummy

When People think of Mummies they think of Egypt or even Peru, but they certainly don’t think of a small town in Eastern North Carolina, but for sixty one years there was a mummy in the town of Laurinburg. In those years man took flight , the world went to war not once, but twice, the first boot prints were left on moon, the Korean conflict and the United States involvement in Vietnam began and ended along with a lot of other historical events and during all that time a small unknown Italian man stood silently in the corner of a funeral home watching it all, the Scotland County mummy observing, but never speaking a silent witness to the history happening all around him. This is the story of Cancetto Farmica.

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Forgotten Trees: Paw Paw

Sometimes known as the Hoosier Banana, Kentucky Banana, Indian Banana, or whatever you want to call it, the paw paw is a wonderful, but mostly forgotten, native fruit.

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Unexpected Rustic

When Johanna Cheek’s husband built her dream home, she comprised and let one deer head hang on the wall; she never expected to love antlers in her decor!

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Some Bars I Have Known

Seldom does one go to a bar to drink; more often, they’re the setting to something else. Pure background. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend my time at a great many different kinds of bars in a great many different places. I’ve been to a place in Alaska that is serving cold beer at 8AM on game…

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Bald Head Island

Living in North Carolina my entire life, I am not sure how I spent a lifetime, no more than two hours away from Bald Head Island, and never managed to discover this amazing treasure. It is truly one of North Carolina’s best-kept secrets. It has a look about it that makes you feel you are on an…

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The Pig: The Quintessential Southerner

To study the history of the pig in the South, we must start in the rolling pastures of Spain—the dehesa. The dehesa is a combination of grassland and oak savannah found in Spain and Portugal and is known for producing cork and charcoal from the trees as well as the famous fighting bulls from the pastures. But, the most treasured…

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Robert Johnson: Hell Hound On My Trail

I love legends and lore and ghostly tales from the Southland, and one of the most prominent spooky Southern legends is the story of how boy from Mississippi became king of the delta blues. Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, on May 8th, 1911…

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