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Whiskey, Snakes and Voltaire 1 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
See the introduction to this series of posts: Writing on Things Southern and Past By Joe Bageant I called the old man Grandpap. But most of my mother's family called him a son of a bitch. Which never ...
Lonzy Barker Is Missing 19 May 2013 | 08:45 pm
Lonzy Barker is missing. Has been for several months now. Nobody noticed it until that smelly old hermit didn't show up here at Dalton Bayles' post office store for his sardines and rock candy. "He co...
Queen of the Skies 6 May 2013 | 11:54 pm
As I drove through the decaying neighborhood in Winchester, Virginia the pain of growing up there came back -- the stabbing kind that only lasts a second but makes you flinch as you remember some smal...
Blood and Poppies 27 Apr 2013 | 08:08 pm
By Joe Bageant My family's ancestral home on Shanghai Road, a great sagging clapboard thing perched on a hill with its many filigreed balconies and porches like heisted antebellum petticoats, sat perc...
Writing on Things Southern and Past 26 Apr 2013 | 08:10 pm
When visiting Joe and his wife Barbara six years ago in Winchester, Virginia, I convinced Joe to show me some of his unpublished writing. He was reluctant, appearing almost embarrassed, and said the w...
Tim Leary and the Outer Space Connection 2 Jan 2013 | 05:44 am
Joe Bageant on Timothy Leary. Not many people under 50, maybe 60, know about the impact that Timothy Leary had on American culture. Leary was a respected faculty member at Harvard when he conducted go...
Tribute to a white trash saint 6 Nov 2012 | 03:56 am
Hiram Hank Williams was his full name and he was born in Georgiana, Alabama on Sept. 17, 1923, the son of a railroad engineer and a very crude and dominant mother whose character had been permanently ...
In the footsteps of Neal Cassady's ghost 24 Sep 2012 | 08:48 pm
Early writing of Joe Bageant, "In the footsteps of Neal Cassady's ghost," published in The Colorado Daily, March 9, 1976. By Joe Bageant
