A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress , public domain.
On religious matters, I prefer to whisper, the reliable attention-getting method of mothers of young children.
Doris Betts Carolinian
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"Southern Writers and the Bible," The Bookmark 53, 1985
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