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Southern Byways

September 21st, 2007

Getting a better Picture of Alabama

If you are digging into your family tree and think that some of your ancestors came from Alabama, you might want to check the info here. I just might have made your list a whole lot easier!
Thanks to Amanda Marshall, the town of Birmingham is one that you are not likely to forget. And for […]

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September 6th, 2007

Scarlett O’Hara… memorable quotes from the south

It has to be positively ages since I last watched this movie and lately I have noticed that a lot of people are looking for “southern quotes”. I thought that this would be a good place to start.

“As God is my witness, they’re not going to lick me! I’m going to live through this […]

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August 10th, 2007

Travel Quotes

I wouldn’t have thought that there would be so may quotes on the topic of traveling, but apparently there are and here are just five of them. Feel free to leave on of your own in the comment section!
He who would travel happily must travel light.
*Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I travel not to go anywhere, […]

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July 26th, 2007

Quotes That Paints a Picture of the South

 

Cypress Trees in Fog at Sunrise, George Smith State Park, Georgia, USA

I couldn’t imagine this trip. It was the most fabulous of all. It was no longer east-west, but magic south.

 
Jack Kerouac, On The Road Source

 
One of those lovely misty mornings of late spring when every flower in New Orleans seems to melt […]

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June 5th, 2007

Travel Quotes

He who would travel happily must travel light.
*Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
*Robert Louis Stevenson
Without travel “I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.”
*Lauren […]

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April 11th, 2007

Disney Land vs Disney World

Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland…the blessing of size. There’s enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.Walt Disney
*Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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October 28th, 2006

Faye Dunaway … a Famous Southerner

I’m still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn’t feel like she belonged.
Faye Dunaway

*born 14 January 1941 in Bascom, Florida
If this interview is any indication, it seems that she has lost that “little girl from the wrong side of the tracks” persona.
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October 24th, 2006

Southern Byways - Thoughts on broadening your horizons…

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” — Mohammed
I really think that schools should find a way to impliment more field trips. Kids would learn so much more!
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Saint Augustine
I once spent […]

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October 4th, 2006

Tina Turner and the South

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.”
- Tina Turner
Well, I guess she is pointing out that regardless of where we start out, we can always make our mark on the world. Now that I think about it, a lot of celebrities started in the south. I wonder what it is […]

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September 20th, 2006

The Sweetness of the South

“All I can say is that there’s a sweetness here, a Southern sweetness, that makes sweet music. . . . If I had to tell somebody who had never been to the South, who had never heard of soul music, what it was, I’d just have to tell him that it’s music from the heart, […]

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