Books Bygone

Thursday, May 2, 2013

This is Nice

Southerners tend to live in one place, where they can see whole lives unfold around them. It gives them a natural sense of the narrative, of the dramatic content of life.
-- Eudora Welty

From Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Houses of the Old South (Caroline Seebohm and Peter Woloszynski, Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York, 2002)

The Elms, Natchez, Mississippi
 Photo from Under Live Oaks, p. 125.


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