by Do South | Nov 1, 2017 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anita Shreve | Knopf | 241 pages | $26 Fall of 1947 was devastating for Maine. The state had endured a warm spring foll-owed by 108 consecutive days without rain. By October, all the elements were in...
by Do South | Nov 1, 2017 | People
Sarah and Aaron Mastropaolo, a brother and sister duo, grew up happily with their two older sisters in a vine-covered house in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Their family is Italian, the kind of loud, passionate, in each other’s business stereotype you’ve long heard...
by Do South | Nov 1, 2017 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Layla has been making Thanksgiving dinner since she was in her late teens. The first time was the year her mother died. The death had taken place in March, on a day so windy, the newly blossomed trees had...
by Do South | Nov 1, 2017 | Issues
by Do South | Nov 1, 2017 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: courtesy Visit Lubbock”][/title] The land in and around Lubbock is golden, offering gifts of grapes and cotton, cattle and corn. For the people rooted to this section of the High Plains, there’s no...