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Tag Archives: Of Boys and Men
The Club
I have an interest in men’s clubs dating back to reading Around the World in 80 Days and The Time Traveler as a kid, and I have no idea why. Boys like clubs and clubhouses as a rule, I think, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Britain, history, literature, Of Boys and Men, social history
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Troubled
Selected Quotations Imagine that your first memory is that of being three years old and seeing your mother, a drug addict who ties you to chairs to get high without interruption, being arrested. Imagine being bounced around ten different foster … Continue reading
The World’s Largest Man
When Harrison Scott Key was young, his father opted to uproot the family from Memphis and moved to an old farmstead out in the country – -the reason being, a boy needed to grow up outdoors doing things. Harrison did … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged fathers and sons, Harrison Scott Key, humor, Mississippi, Of Boys and Men, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors
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Uncensored Memoirs of a Trailer Park Refugee
Ahh, boyhood. A time for digging out forts in the sides of hills, running from water moccasins at the creek, and repeatedly bashing .45 ACP rounds to see what’s inside. I stumbled upon this book while researching a Selma suburb … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Alabama, Alaska, American West, memoir, Of Boys and Men, Selma, sports and outdoors, Texas
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Faces Along the Bar
Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920© 1998 Madelon Powers331 pages Men’s thinking on this issue seems to have involved an interesting mixture of solicitude and defiance. On the one hand, decent women should be … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged 19th century, food and drink, labor, Of Boys and Men, place and community, social history
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Sean of the South and the Old Man’s Boy
Sean Dietrich and his wife Jamie’s collective world was shaken when their doctor said the C word. Cancer. The emperor of all maladies, the ticking timebomb in each of us. Rather than crumbling into a weeping ball of woe-is-me, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American South, bicycles, humor, Of Boys and Men, Sean Dietrich, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors, travel
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The way of men – pagan and Christian
Late last year I re-read Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men, written for identifying what it means to be a man, and what men need and want. Donovan argues that men are largely driven by the need for the respect … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Christianity, Of Boys and Men
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A southern trilogy: Rick Bragg’s folks
All Over but the Shoutin’ is perhaps Rick Bragg’s most well-known work, beginning a trilogy that, in its focus on one family in the early and mid-20th century, takes readers into the generally ignored territory of the poor white working class of the South. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, American South, biography, Of Boys and Men, poverty, Rick Bragg, Southern Literature
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