Nothing much shaking here except a good deal of thumb twiddling

@ShelbyFooteGreenville Tubi It's been a while since I've watched it. I love the setting and mood. Sam Shepard was something else. 🌟

The 4th of July is first and foremost a yankee holiday and i refuse to have anything to do with it

Bill Faulkner is a great storyteller. He stood by me when I was crazy. and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now we stand by each other

@ShelbyFooteGreenville Exactly

You can never, never be "understood" even by one reader; if one likes you, it's always for the unwelcome reasons. (His own; not yours)

Quite the brood , cc: riders

I am a Mississippian. Though the veterans I knew are all dead now, down to the final home guard drummer boy of my childhood, the remembrance of them is still with me. However, being nearly as far removed from them in time as most of them were removed from combat when they died.

"Edward Clark Haskell, Jr.,"

Shiloh is, to my mind, unquestionably the best-preserved Civil War battlefield of them all. It has been singularly fortunate in many ways. It’s not so close to a large city or populated area, so it is not clogged with tourists all the time. #FooteNotes

@ShelbyFooteGreenville Hello! Dr. Paul Hutton is our curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum. If you email [email protected] with your questions and inquiries, we can send that along to Paul.

In the gray twilight, poor ragged Confederates fought on parched corn and Nassau bacon while Sherman (that bastard) ripped up Georgia and the Carolinas with nothing but old men and boys in his path as Jefferson Davis mumbled " We'll whip them yet!" and almost believed it.

Hugs got busted out of University of Memphis - smoking pot on the tennis court during a recess. So I took him down and put him in a stricter school; BRIERCREST , it's called, though by no means as swanky as it's name.

Fellow Author, Historian and Storyteller Kenny StarMaker Bolin💙®™ writes with a profound brevity that is unparalleled in modern American literature

“There’s no shame in the world, and without shame, you cannot have honor. Our world is ruled by consensus now. There is no sense of honor.”

still busy at work on my new novel "Gaslighting the Gatekeeper"

And the Europeans are just exasperated by these damn Americans coming over and acting that way; this “New Puritanism” or whatever it’s called. They don’t like it, and I don’t like it either. I think it’s un-American —

"True literature reveals the still unknown part of the soul" - Marcel Proust

You ever see Alan Lomax sing 'Old Hannah'?

this shot was taken in '77, and no I am NOT a fan of this so-called 'yacht rock n roll'