Back in 1975 one of the most popular rock n’ roll bands of all time, the Rolling Stones, did a photo shoot at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas to promote a tour they were about to begin. One of the band members donned a coonskin hat (apparently in honour of Davy Crockett who...
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In 1943, singer and actor Bing Crosby starred alongside New Orleans-born actress Dorothy Lamour in Dixie. At the time Crosby was married to Tennessee-born actress and singer Dixie Lee (she died of cancer in 1952). The film is loosely based on the life of minstrel Daniel Emmett who is generally credited with writing and...
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An SNN reader recorded the following video interview with Rick Bullock, a legend of the Florida surfing scene who has shaped boards for world champions. In this video Mr Bullock talks about his career in the business, how things were in Hawaii and Florida back in the 60s and 70s, the negative impact of...
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It’s difficult to imagine a more horrifying fate for a human-being than coming face-to-face with a Xenomorph, the deadly creature from Ridley Scott’s film Alien. Perhaps the only equally horrifying fate one could imagine would be to encounter the wrath of Abraham Lincoln and his hordes of Union troops, descending upon your town to...
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One of the major aspects of any culture is its culinary traditions. Therefore, the renewed interest in Southern cooking these days is certainly an encouraging sign for Southern nationalists. The Montgomery Advertiser, which is often quite hostile to the traditional South, had an article today by Allison Griffin which promotes our food, traditions and...
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I never felt tempted in the least to see the movie John Carter in the movie theater, though my brother told me recently that the main character, John Carter, was a Confederate officer. I figured that if Disney was making a movie with a Confederate character, then they would have to at least make...
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One aspect of Southern language is that we have generally held onto the old idioms of the English language better than many other areas of the English-speaking world. Cosmopolitan, heavily-populated and urban and suburban areas in the US and elsewhere have (in many cases) not only lost all connection to the soil and organic...
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Massachusetts-born rock n’ roller Freddy ‘Boom Boom’ Cannon made a career out of singing songs about the South including ‘Tallahassee Lassie,’ ‘Okefenokee’ and ‘Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy’. His biggest hit was ‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,’ which he took to number 3 in the charts in both the US and UK in 1959-60....
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In a year of films glorifying Abraham Lincoln (see Spielberg’s Lincoln), portraying our Southern ancestors as blood-sucking vampires in need of eradication (see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and idolising righteous Black slaves who slaughter evil Southerners by the handfuls (see Django Unchained) it appears that Hollywood is more openly anti-Southern than ever. Yet, this...
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MissouriTenth.com has an interview with Tom Davis, author of Georgia Burns, which will likely be of interest to SNN readers. In explaining why he wrote the book, Davis says: I wrote Georgia Burns with the primary intention of entertaining those who enjoy politics and political thrillers. However, many people who have picked the book...
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Richard writes: Haha! Honey mustard. They don’t get it. But for whatever reason, what our culture produces is wildly popular. Even if we’re not. Of course they don’t seem to understand that without our culture that they so despise, we wouldn’t produce what we do and they wouldn’t be able to enjoy it. Also...
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A scene from the back deck.
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