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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791050003321

Autore

Nichols Mark W.

Titolo

From azaleas to zydeco : my 4,600-mile journey through the South / / Mark W. Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Little Rock, Arkansas : , : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, , 2013

℗2013

ISBN

1-935106-66-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (736 p.)

Disciplina

917.504

Soggetti

Popular culture - Southern States

Southern States Description and travel

Southern States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Third Battle of Manassas""; ""Polo Place""; ""Travel Notes: What�s a Cavalier?""; ""RVa""; ""All Come to Look for America""; ""Travel Notes: What�s a Tar Heel?""; ""Dobbies and Pout Houses""; ""The Research Triangle""; ""Sustainability in Greensboro""; ""Trains, Furniture, and Krispy Kreme""; ""Towel Town No More""; ""Sister City""; ""They Glue Lug Nuts on Wheels""; ""Ella May�s Ghost""; ""America�s First Civil War Battle""; ""Hub-Bub in the Hub City""; ""Downtown New South""

""Jerusalem Artichokes and Robert Kennedy""""The Mountains""; ""Cashiers""; ""Franklin""; ""The Smoky Mountains""; ""Good Old Rocky Top""; ""Norris, the Planned Community""; ""Hard-bitten Land""; ""Chattanooga Rebound""; ""A Civil Misunderstanding""; ""Alabama Retail""; ""Alabama Wholesale""; ""Driving the Natchez Trace Parkway""; ""Nashville Hootenanny""; ""Mississippi Embayment""; ""Travel Notes: What�s a Julep?""; ""Day Trip to Arkansas""; ""The Delta in Mississippi""; ""Cosmopolitan Helena""; ""Duck Gumbo""; ""Meeting the Governor""; ""Water, Water Everywhere""; ""I�m Only 75""

""Nitta Yuma""""A Coffee Shop in Vicksburg""; ""Mississippi Praying""; ""Wide Spot on Highway 28""; ""Not a Soul in Sight""; ""The Rose Lady Comes to Camellia Land""; ""The Salon at Ravennaside""; ""McDonald�



s Comes to St. Francisville""; ""Crossing the River by Ferryboat""; ""Baton Rouge, Huey Long, and the Movie Industry""; ""On to Opelousas""; ""Travel Notes: What�s a Coon Ass?""; ""Cajun vs. Coon Ass""; ""Zydeco Dancing""; ""Boudin, Sugar Cane Farming, and More Crawfish""; ""The Road to New Orleans""; ""Once the Levees Break""; ""Mississippi Gulf Coast""; ""Travel Notes: Beauvoir""

""Mobile""""Hank, Biscuits, and Green Roofs""; ""Forty Miles to Tuskegee""; ""Fender Bender in Birmingham""; ""Travel Notes: Iced or Hot? Sweet or Un?""; ""Metropolitan Atlanta""; ""Traveling South Georgia""; ""Happy Animals. Good Cheese""; ""Tallahassee""; ""Ybor City""; ""Cracker from Kissimmee""; ""The First Coast""; ""Stuck in South Georgia""; ""Savannah""; ""Travel Notes: Georgilina""; ""Coastalitis""; ""Carolina Gold""; ""Flatland to Fall Line""; ""Epilogue: June 2013""; ""Sources""; ""Songs from the Journey""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Mark W. Nichols was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated with a BA in economics from Hanover College in Indiana. He received his law degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1977 and received an LLM from New York University in 1980. Nichols has spent most of his life in the South and now lives in Little Rock with his wife, Cheri, a historic preservationist. Their son, Will, lives in Charleston, South Carolina.</div>