Southern Tales

Stories that are being told before they are forgotten completely.

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PS Cousin Simmons has forbidden the use of the word "squirrel" in his presence.

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Here is Letter 2 from The Earnest Epistolarian Collection: 🧵👇

July 17, 1883 Dearest Sister,
Not for the first time, honorable Southerners find themselves retreating from Atlanta beneath the humiliating auspices of defeat by a wiry rascal named Sherman.

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And so Sherman claimed another victory. Cousin Simmons and I are bound for Terrell County to guide a village through the solemn labor of selecting a new name.

With bitten fingers, D.

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Letter 2 coming soon! Make sure to follow along for more from the Earnest Epistolarian Collection.

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When we started looking for a story behind how a city gets incorporated, we weren’t sure we’d find much at all. Then we found a long-forgotten estate in Augusta, and these letters.

Here is the first from The Earnest Epistolarian Collection: 🧵👇

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I managed several minutes of congratulations before quietly retiring to my room.

Woe to me, my pious sister, for I spent the next twelve hours lying very still in the dark, praying for a swift death that never came.

Your tobacco-abstaining brother, D.