Monthly Archives: August 2015

“Foreword” to Bylines book

from the book Bylines: Writings from the American South, 1963 to 1997, by Joseph B. Cumming, Jr., 2010. Joe Cumming was a most unusual sort of journalist. For twenty-two years he covered the American South for Newsweek magazine, the very … Continue reading

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History, Types I and II

They tied a body bag around Cyrus Hall McCormick. The next day, I discovered what they were doing to this bronze campus statue of one of our biggest donors. They were catalyzing the greenish patina back to its original bronze … Continue reading

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