Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
5 January 2012

Prejudice, and Harper Lee's and Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird

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Over the holidays I chanced upon the DVD of To Kill a Mockingbird , and although I'd seen the movie before and read the book two or ...
18 February 2010

Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (1995)

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My comment on this will have to wait until I've actually read it, but in the meantime how about this quote from Fannie Flagg, who, the f...
18 October 2009

Monroeville, Alabama: Harper Lee and Truman Capote: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #6

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I drive up to the center of this tiny town, right next to the old courthouse – at about 12:00 – although the clocks here say it's 11:00,...
17 October 2009

Irondale, Birmingham, Alabama: Fannie Flagg: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #5

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This is the original, and elsewhere I've given as a sign of insanity that someone – namely me – should make a round trip of about 200 mi...
16 October 2009

Montgomery, Alabama: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #4

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Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, 919 Felder Avenue.   The plaque reads: 'Fitzgerald Home (ca. 1910). F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wif...
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Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #3 Tuskegee, Alabama

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Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, later university, lifts the veil from a slave's head. In Ralph Ellison...