[tenthirteen]

Gone Wuth the Wind was and is, at least to me, an epic story told by a home spun historian. I read somewhere that Margaret Mitchell had written it over a period of many years, and basically did not even mean to publish it. She was spurred on by another person who knew of the manuscript (her husband, perhaps) who brought it unfinished to a publisher. Then she completed the story.

I have grown up in NYC and lived in the South for quite a while. I sense a smarminess of the industrialized North regarding the concept of blacks and slavery. Those here in the Old South seem to have a working understanding of the nearness of Reconstruction and an abiding ability to understand how to live in this modern society with the descendants of slaves. To me, it is an accomodating relationship here as opposed to an aggressive, contriving meddling relationship in the blue states.

Thjis is all my opinion and observance as I see it. I'm sure you have yours.

[groanup]

My grandmother knew Margaret Mitchell. She went to school with her and traveled to Europe with her as a young woman. I thought she told me that Mitchell wrote much of her book while bedridden. My grandmother always maintained until the day she died that she found it hard to believe little unpretentious Margaret could have written such a sweeping epic.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Thjis is all my opinion and observance as I see it. I'm sure you have yours.

I've noticed the same thing.