Alan Richard with cover photo by Mike Kerr

COME IN AND STAY AWHILE

Remembering Memphis drummer Howard Grimes, who backed Al Green, Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright, Willie Mitchell and others

George Lancaster describes how he and his friend Bill built a committed and lasting friendship — despite their religious and political differences.

Poet Joshua Lavender, a South Georgia native, brings us verses that resurrect how folks talk in the country.

Richard Murff admits to being perhaps the only Southerner ever to own two hunting dogs, neither of which would hunt.

Every day, millions of teachers and students face the possibility of violence. This Mississippi teacher is one of them.

After our editor’s mother passed, he relied on his Aunt Mary — the boss of the Reece family kitchen — to show him how to live.

A North Florida cattleman looks back and wonders, what happens when you can no longer afford to love the thing you love the most?

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