If you bottled up a caricature of Southern culture and poured it all over a town, you would get Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The streets of Gatlinburg look more like the midway …
A century ago a swampy forest, The Big Woods, stretched from Memphis to Little Rock, nearly 24 million acres worth. This was the treasured territory of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the …
In the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, where I hail from, an heirloom tomato originated before the 1900’s. The Arkansas Traveler is prized for very flavorful, medium-sized tomatoes that resist cracking …
My family, the Southern Belle I married, most of her family, and myself are Yellow Dog Democrats. We are Southerners who would vote for a yellow dog before we would …
A group of Mississippi hunters who shot and killed an alligator weighting 910 pounds (413 kilograms) on Sunday, were amazed when they discovered that the animal already bore injuries caused by musket ammunitions …
“Have you seen The Judge?” Michael Parker, a fruit tree scientist from NC State University I’m interviewing asks me the week after my visit with Elbie. “The Judge?” I had …
Phoebe Lawless tells me, “I’m not sure I’m the right person to talk to about your chapter. I don’t really like pecan pies.” I stare at Phoebe mystified. Being the …
Pecans trees are water loving. In 1578 when Spanish explorer Cebeza de Vacas shipwrecked on Galveston Island the local Native Americans befriended him. De Vacas noted that the Native Americans …
George Washington referred to pecans as Illinois nuts. His troops mentioned in their letters of his fondness for carrying pecans in his pocket to snack on. Washington’s love of pecans …
