Category: Southern Culture

Defenders of Honor Stand Guard for Fallen Pine Bluff Soldier

MONTICELLO, Ark. — As promised, a flashback to last weekend when a group of Arkansans mobilized in Pine Bluff, Ark.,  to defend the honor of a U.S. soldier whose funeral was targeted by the Westboro Baptist Church. Thanks to Aaron…

Group Plans to Shield Soldier’s Service

An Arkansas high school teacher’s facebook page to “Preserve the Honor of Fallen Pine Bluff Soldier” plans to buffer funeral participants from a Westboro Baptist Church protest Saturday afternoon at Pine Bluff’s St. Joseph Catholic Church. John Allison, a 44-year-old former Marine…

TV Land Honors Griffith This Weekend

‘Opie’ Remembers ‘Ang’

Editor’s Note: See also: Ron Howard: What I Learned from Andy Griffith in the Los Angeles Times Ron Howard says co-star Andy Griffith was a leader, a mentor and coach in the New York Daily News

A Matter of Course

Glynn Wilson by the mythical “meterote” on Audubon Golf Course in New Orleans. It’s really a chunk of iron ore from Alabama, most likely Birmingham’s Red Mountain. by Glynn Wilson This may come as a surprise to some, but the…

Alabama Prevails Over Texas for National Championship

Glynn Wilson There’s an empty spot on the walk of fame at Alabama for Nick Saban, who brought Alabama back to the national championship in the Rose Bowl and coached the university’s first Heisman Trophy winner, Mark Ingram by Glynn…

Tom Campbell: A Witness To History

(Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared in our sister publication, The Locust Fork blog.) Guest Column by Tom Campbell NEW YORK — Few people ever have a chance to be arms’ length from greatness. As a lifelong fan of Alabama…

Eat Southern Foods!

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum declared Sunday, Oct. 11 to be the first Southern Food Heritage Day. (Luckily, I started early by eating fried Oreos from the Arkansas State Fair.) If you don’t have any idea what to make…

However you handle such things …

Prayers for a speedy recovery for Paul Finebaum.

bReAk ThE cUrSe!

For those of you blissfully unaware, the savior of Golden Eagles’ football faces a dilemma of whether to return to the Land of Cheese and pacify both his flock and his folly. Brett Favre, known in these parts first for…