“Southern hospitality was to a great extent the creation of a desperately lonely people…. ‘Strangers are sought after with Greediness,’ wrote an observer. A circuit judge in North Carolina in the Revolutionary War era stopped at the home of some well-to-do newlyweds who were living on the husband’s farm, 18 miles from the nearest neighbor. […]
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Southerners too lonely not be hospitable?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged america's women, gail collins, revolutionary war north carolina, southern hospitality on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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