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A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South (1949) Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South (1941) Cobb, James C. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity (2005) Fischer, D. H. Albion's seed: Four British folkways in America Oxford University Press 1989
"Typical Stone Ballasted Track", photo published in 1921. Though rail tracks were held in place by wooden ties (sleepers outside the U.S. and Canada) and the mass of the crushed rock beneath them, each pass of a train around a curve, through centripetal force and vibration, produces a tiny shift in the tracks, requiring that work crews periodically realign the track.
Southern gentlemen are also expected to be chivalrous toward women, in words and deeds. [6] [7] Although "culture of honor" qualities have generally been associated with men in the southern United States, women in the region have also been involved, and even exhibited some of the same qualities.
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Nicki Metcalf Photography In traditional Southern fashion, the two buried a bottle of bourbon in hopes of dodging rain on the wedding day. To celebrate its success, the two dug up the bottle and ...
Southern chivalry, or the Cavalier myth, was a popular concept describing the aristocratic honor culture of the Southern United States during the Antebellum, Civil War, and early Postbellum eras. The archetype of a Southern gentleman became popular as a chivalric ideal of the slaveowning planter class , emphasizing both familial and personal ...
Folklore of the Southern United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. A. Alabama folklore (2 C, 5 P)
Saint Mark United Methodist church. As with the rest of the South, Georgia is highly religious, with the predominant religion in the state being Christianity.In fact, 85% of Georgians are Christians with 76% of those being Protestant, 8% Catholic and 1% designated as Other; 13% of the population have no religion and 2% are of a religion other than Christianity. [3]