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Contributors include:
Marlyn Allgood ▪ Shannon Rule Bardwell ▪ Betty Wilson Beamguard ▪ Lottie Boggan Susan Budavari ▪ Linda Chubbuck ▪ Ed Davis ▪ Lucy J. Dixon ▪ Fred Farris ▪ John M. Floyd Brenda Gable ▪ Nancy Gotter Gates ▪ Edward Hartman ▪ Deborah Ledford ▪ Philip L. Levin Denton Loving ▪ Sylvia Lynch ▪ Merle L. McCann ▪ Annie McKee ▪ Terry I. Miles Jan Rider Newman ▪ Richelle Putnam ▪ Bob Strothers ▪ Ovid Vickers ▪ Glanda Widger
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Philip L. Levin, president of the 80-member Gulf Coast Writers Association, inherited his writing prowess from an authoress mother and an editor father. His best selling suspense thriller, “Inheritance” and his children's book, “Consuto and the Rain God,” are available on-line and at bookstores. When not writing, Philip whiles away his off-hours as an Emergency Room Doctor in Gulfport, Mississippi. |
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Dixon Hearne is the author of a new book, "Plantatia: Hightone and Lowdown Stories of the South" (Southeast Missouri University Press 2009). He is one of fifty authors selected to appear in "Woodstock Revisited: 50 Far Out, Groovy, Peace-Loving, Flashback-Inducing Stories From Those Who Were There" (Adams Media, June 2009). Also forthcoming is work in Christmas Traditions (Adams Media, September 2009). His stories, essays and poems appear widely in magazines and journals. The author can be reached at: www.dixonhearne.com and dixonh@socal.rr.com. |
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-- Cover Art --
Barbeque, Picture Hats and cool Mint Juleps By ALICE MOSELEY, Folk Artist
My mom used to say that this is the print she sells most to the “snowbirds,” our friends from Iowa and Minnesota who come in the winter to play golf and eat our oysters and shrimp. Barbecue means different things to people from different parts of the country, but barbeque, in this print, refers to the Memphis definition, a sandwich on a hamburger bun overflowing with pulled barbeque pork and topped off with cold slaw and a sweet barbecue sauce. Picture hats were the topic of one of Mom's funny stories. Her mother's favorite picture hat was left on the bed in preparation for a function later one night when my mom was about 12 years old. My mom said she almost got in trouble on this occasion, for laughing when her mother discovered that the cat had licked all the color off the artificial grapes on her picture hat. Every time my mom told this story, I could hear a special chuckle of enjoyment in her voice. My mom and her mom had a difficult relationship and telling this story would bring a secret little smile of satisfaction to my mom's face, even at age 94. I don't think my mom ever had a mint julep, or knew much about them, but Barbeque, Picture Hats and Mint Juleps as a title, does have a ring to it. –Tim Moseley Nationally Acclaimed Folk Art Miss Alice, as she was referred to by her friends and admirers, was a self-taught idyllic folk artist, who began painting at age 65 to maintain her sanity while caring for her Alzheimer-afflicted mother. This is being written by her son Tim Moseley, an antique collector and part-time antique dealer for over 30 years. Back around 1970, I was going to the flea market in Nashville, Tennessee and talked my mom into taking her paintings. She reluctantly agreed. I rented her a stall and helped her hang the first 30 paintings that she had painted. I then resumed my search for antique bargains. When I returned an hour later, Mom was in an empty stall holding a $1,350 check. "He bought them all, he bought them all," Mom excitedly told me. A Mr. Barr from Kentucky had indeed bought them all for $45 apiece. That was the day when Alice Moseley, retired schoolteacher, became Alice Moseley "Professional Artist."
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