Kith and Kin: The Enduring Ethic of the South, Part 2
Attachment to kinfolk is not simply a Charleston mania, though it might seem so if you remember the old joke: “Why are Charlestonians like the Chinese?
Attachment to kinfolk is not simply a Charleston mania, though it might seem so if you remember the old joke: “Why are Charlestonians like the Chinese?
Pronouns, that is, words that stand in for nouns, come in different types, principally personal (I, thou, he, she etc.), interrogative (who? what? etc), and demonstrative (this, that etc).
This is a corrected and revised version of a talk delivered to an Abbeville Institute program held at Hopsewee Plantation on the Santee River in Lowcountry South Carolina.
This is actually Lesson 9. I was distracted by travel. Please assume, whether I post on time or not, that we are doing one lesson per week, starting on Domenica.
Henry Timrod’s dream of Southern freedom was about to undergo a trial by fire, as Charleston endured one of the most brutal sieges ever inflicted on a great and civilized city.
Lately, I have been thinking back to an observation I made over a decade ago, that the American ruling class has been experiencing a steady regression in manners, intelligence, and dignity to the point that the leaders of both parties routinely believe like the spoiled brats they undoubtedly are.
As college freshmen, my friends and I got in the habit of walking every street in the city until we could recite the street names north and south, east and west.