The Southerner | Summer Contents

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Summer 2000 Contents

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Vol. 2, No. 2

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Editor's Note
Preparing for the Louisiana heat.
Around the South
Easy guide to festivals, many with links.
Reader Forum
Tell us what you think about anything Southern.
Dixie Notes
Late breaking news briefs from around the region.

Features
Cover Story:
Technology Transforms Dixie
Suzi Parker

Online Doesn't Mean Antisocial
Janna Malamud Smith

Flood: An Unnatural Disaster
Fetzer Mills Jr.

Inside a Voodoo Temple
Brooks Boliek
Priestess Miriam Chamani's temple lies behind a nondescript door on Rampart Street. Like most people who seek out Chamani, I was searching for something.

Fiction:
All You Can Eat Night
Fred Bonnie

Gone with Wind
Fred Bonnie

Thank You, Thank You Very Much:
A Virtual Short Story
Help us write the book on the first communiqué
from extraterrestrial life. What is Elvis doing . . .
in outerspace? (Rules | Story)

Departments

Secret Vistas
The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Glynn Wilson
Amazingly in the land of 10 million tourists a year, we traveled for miles without seeing another vehicle or a single human being. When we reached the mountaintop, the clouds hung in the lower peaks below us, and just a hint of the late afternoon sun made the higher clouds shine violet.

Essays
Searching for the South
Timothy Wayne Thornton

Southern Culture
Sinnin' and Fornicatin'
Suzi Parker
Sittin' Purty in an Alabama Front Yard
Angela Gillaspie

R & R
Catching More Than Fish on the Arkansas
Steve Taylor

Eco Front
Environmental Briefs
SEJ Tipsheet

Lab & Field
Otter's Grandchildren, a Tale of Success
Rhonda H. Rucker

In Passing
Fred Bonnie
Staff Reports

Southern Sounds
The Secret Diva of Louise Avenue, Ida Cox
Jack Neely
Cephas and Wiggins, No Boundaries
Brenda Whitehurst Rollins

Reviews
Yellow Jack
David R. Mark
My Dog Skip, Remembering Willie
Jack Bales

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