The Midtown Dickens sound is hard to explain to people who’ve never heard it. There’s not a band or a song you can throw down for a starting point of description. The best thing you can do is let a person experience MD, but you’ve got to play an entire album, because a [...]
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Deal’s Gap
The winter was just cold enough to keep us close to home, but not cold enough to inspire ski trips or pastoral winter scenes. For many of my less-dedicated motorcyclismo friends, it was cold enough to keep their trusty steeds in the barn – no longer. It’s time to dust off your two-wheeled [...]
Historic Spaces: Nolan House
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles on historic structures across the South. Only a few minutes north of the sleepy, picturesque, quintessentially Southern town of Madison, Georgia sits the old abandoned Nolan Plantation in the tiny town of Bostwick, Georgia. For most of the small town’s history, [...]
Haywood Patterson Is Dead and Gone
It was raining and fog rolled up from the river. Under awnings and concrete eaves on 11th Street people hid away in pairs, alone sometimes, and watched the rain fall down on the empty downtown streets. They talked quietly and smoked cigarettes. Some of them drank from brown paper bags and looked up at the [...]
Purgatory and Commonwealth
How many Virginia Tech students does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 3. 1 to screw the thing in and 2 to mention how much better they did it than UVA. You can replace Virginia Tech with NC State, UVA with North Carolina, Auburn and Alabama, so on and so forth. There are games [...]
Holding on to Christmas
I’m a woman of good intentions, and my attitude toward holiday decor is no exception. I grew up in a house where we decorated for Christmas a short time before the holiday and left up the trimmings well into the New Year. Mom, having spent time in Germany as a child, called it Old Christmas; [...]
The Tree That Stole Christmas
Christmastime is every child’s favorite time of year, and I was no exception. My love of Christmas, though, was born of a different tradition than those of most kids my age. It wasn’t the school vacation, the family gatherings, or even Santa himself that made me merry; it was my parents’ big Christmas party. Every [...]
Christmas Memories
The first Christmas service I remember, I was very small. I was wearing a dark green velvet dress, and I’m pretty sure we were in Florida. The church was huge, white on the inside, and very brightly lit. It was packed, and each person held a slim white candle with a cardboard hand guard. [...]
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