Vol. 19 No. 1 - Spring 1991

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The Golden Child

• Dateline: The South

  Compiled by Robin Donovan

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• Southern News Roundup

  Compiled by Laurie Udesky

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• Fowling the Nest

  The poultry industry is polluting fields and streams from Arkansas to Virginia. By Denise Giardina and Eric Bates.

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• Short Stories and Tall Tales

  By Susan Ketchin

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• Nonnie and the Melungeon

  By Lee Smith

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• Any Crazy Body

  By Nanci Kincaid

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• The Way Things Are

  By Ron Rash

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• The Well

  By Tom Bailey

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• The Golden Child

  By Reynolds Price

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• Oldest Living Confederate Widow Really Tells All

  By Allan Gurganus

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• Southern Voices: No Joy in Mudville

  By Neill Herring

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• Of Different Minds

  Fifty years after W. J. Cash probed The Mind of the South, journalists and scholars gather to discuss his influential books. By Eric Bates.

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• Squatter's Right

  Congress ordered a federal agency to sell abandoned homes to low-income families. Myrtis Clark got tired of waiting. By Katrina Willis.

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• Blood for Oil

  Gasoline prices soared after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Are the oil companies guilty of price gouging? By Laurie Udesky.

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• Patriots for Peace

  Many Southern soldiers and military families decided to "just say no" to the war in the Gulf. By Lane Windham.

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• The Last Word

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