It was my first month in Alabama. Time for exploring, seeing new places, and trying new things! A lifetime in the Northeast made everything here seem new, exciting, different. And it was! But after making the long journey South, my old Honda was tired and unreliable. Gas was expensive, my map skills [...]
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Don’t Worry, I Won’t Shake Your Hand
Editor’s note: Drawl will present a regular column from Melissa Crowder Rhoden, who writes about being a peculiar kind of mother in the South. Hi, how are you? I’m Melissa. It’s nice to meet you. I know it’s odd to read a column that begins with a formal introduction. Allow [...]
From the Editor: May 2012
Dear Readers,Happy almost-summer! May kicks off with so much excitement — Mother’s Day, graduations, the annual rolling in of shower and wedding invitations, the increasing abundance in the farmers markets — that it’s hard not to feel like a kid about to get out of school. Of course, down South we’re soaking up all the [...]
Thoughts on the Civil War Sesquicentennial
A lot of us don’t like to talk about it. Some of us are obsessed with it, so obsessed that we don period-appropriate garb and re-stage the battles year in and year out. Meanwhile, when told some years ago that my father was going to be serving barbecue at a re-enactment, I responded, “Well, [...]
From the Editor: April 2012
Dear Readers,Thanks for joining us for the April reboot of Drawl. We are so excited for spring we can hardly stand it.I always thought that I looked forward to spring after a really rough winter, but after the completely mild winter we had, it seems like a lot of us are itching for spring worse [...]
Being Southern: Southern Comfort
I was reared in the foothills of South Carolina, and when someone close to or in our family passed away, my kin were first out of the gate with the grief-comforts of casseroles, macaroni salads, and colorful, oddly-named desserts. It is how we console those who mourn the passing of a loved one – fat, [...]
Southern in: Keystone, SD
We stopped for the sign that advertised $3 burgers and $2 beer, the kind of sign tacked to a white wooden building with a stuffed buffalo on the front porch. The sign that reminds you you’re in South Dakota and the only thing to quench the thirst developed over miles of dusty, rolling prairie land [...]
From the Editor: Happy New Year!
Dear Readers, Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that the holidays have rattled past and we are now staring down a big, blank 2012. We were just at First Night Raleigh, watching the acorn drop, but it just doesn’t seem real. The cookies aren’t stale and some of our trees aren’t down, and it’s [...]
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