Culture and Arts

Horton Foote: "I just felt it could have been set in my little town in Texas. We had a large black population. We had all the prejudices that the book exposes and, I think, a lot of the virtues which were Southern virtues that were this sense of place, this sense of really belonging to something and this essential conflict of being surrounded by a problem that we still haven't solved." more »

It's enjoyable to find a story told in a layered way. This one reads so convincingly like a memoir that the reader is tempted to forget that it really is artful fiction. It could also be a non-academic dissertation of food with implications of the intimate connections between who we are and what we are accustomed to eating. more »

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) offers the public a comprehensive program of genealogical workshops and courses in its facilities nationwide. Topics include an introduction to genealogy and research into records such as census schedules, military service and pension records, and passenger lists. more »

We went as grandparents, whose grandchildren have discovered a number of the books she wrote for them ... for her ... for us. We can't recall books that we've so enjoyed reading out loud, and perhaps 'loud' is the operative word. The characters become more alive when we stress the words, the outrageous but oh-so-real words. more »