by Do South | Nov 30, 2013 | Poetry
[title subtitle=”lines: Austin Bell Swearingen – December, 1944″][/title] May the snow be white and The sky be blue, For even though I am far away, In dreams I’ll be home on Christmas Day.
by Do South | Nov 30, 2013 | People
[title subtitle=”story: Marla Cantrell | images: courtesy Tanya Dedmon”][/title] In 1944, when the world was at war, the draft found Austin “Skinny” Bell Swearingen. At eighteen, he’d seen little outside of Cecil, Arkansas, a town so small it was barely a...