THE SOUTH IS A GARDEN. It has been worn out by the War, Reconstruction, the Period of
Desolation, the Depression and the worst ravages of all - Modernity; yet, a worn-out garden, its
contours perceived by keen eyes, the fruitfulness of its past stored in memory, can be over time, a
time which will last no longer than those of us who initially set our minds to the task, restored,
to once again produce, for the time appointed unto it, the fruits which nurture the human spirit
and which foreshadow the Garden of which there will be no end.
- Dr. Robert M. Peters of Louisiana
soakncinder:
"THE SOUTH IS A GARDEN. It has been worn out by the War, Reconstruction, the Period of Desolation, the Depression and the worst ravages of all..." My home is in central Pennsylvania (aka, "Alabama" or "Pennsyltucky"), but travel a lot, far & wide.
Tomorrow, for example, I'm heading to South Carolina.
My mother's family is from North Carolina.
In my travels, I see no signs of a "worn out garden", except if you count the beat-up roads and emptying cities of the Northern Rust-belt.
In the South, I see just the opposite -- lush green, prosperous towns & countryside, well kept roads & bridges, a land often similar to my own central PA, except that here you see more Confederate Battle Flags flying than there, nearly always side-by-side with the US flag.
