Cornbread & Sushi
Three Big Wild Trees
Submitted by John Lane on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:58am. Cornbread & Sushi | kudzu telegraph | teaching | WoffordAt the beginning of SAND COUNTY ALMANAC Aldo Leopold divides humanity into two groups: those who can't live without wild things and those who can.
I'm in the second group. I need to visit wild places, and when I'm not in them (most of the time), I need to know wild things are out there, simply being wild.
There is no certain human utility to real wildness as far as I understand it, though some people believe that they can't live without wildness because it provides habitat for the animals they like to hunt, territory for trails they like to hike, reservoirs for wild plants containing some undiscovered medicine that might cure cancer, or distant vistas for the scenes they like to photograph.
Once in the presence of wildness, its possible to perceive how its real value is something beyond these simple utilities. True wildness, as Wallace Stegner said in his famous 1963 "Wilderness Letter" is "part of the geography of hope," and we who love it and need it should take pleasure in knowing that "such a timeless and uncontrolled part of the earth is still there."
Notes From the Magic Kingdom
Submitted by John Lane on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 11:52am. Cornbread & Sushi | Disney World | kudzu telegraph | Wofford CollegeWe're exploring the South this week and even Disney World was on our agenda. On Friday after almost a week of visits in small towns with Southern writers Wofford College's Cornbread & Sushi interim sampled Walt Disney's version of reality.
A Town Called Commerce
Submitted by John Lane on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 11:48am. Cornbread & Sushi | kudzu telegraph | Mary Hood | southern writers | Wofford CollegeIt's Cornbread & Sushi time, my biennial Wofford College interim excursion with Deno Trakas and a group of students to take the culinary and literary temperature of our region. We left Spartanburg on Saturday for eleven days, our rented vehicles of choice a Ford Expedition and a Dodge Caravan. Being literary types, the metaphoric weight of the two vehicles' names isn't lost on any of us.
South Different, but Still Kicken'
Submitted by John Lane on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 9:32pm. Cornbread & Sushi | cornbread and sushi | Wofford
DAVID LAUDERDALE, Island Packet columnist, Hilton Head Island, SC DAUFUSKIE ISLAND — The "Cornbread and Sushi" tour nibbled its way through the Lowcountry last week, turning every mossy stone for an answer to that bottomless postmodern question: "Has the South done up and died?"
Published Sunday, January 21, 2007
Students Search for the Real South
Submitted by John Lane on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 9:29pm. Cornbread & Sushi | cornbread and sushi | WoffordBy Matt Deegan, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA
mdeegan@dailyprogress.com
Saturday, January 13, 2007
The sweet tea at Michie Tavern rated "fair" on Betsi Taylor's scale of Southern authenticity.
Sprawl Southern Style
Submitted by John Lane on Sun, 01/21/2007 - 11:46pm. Cornbread & Sushi | kudzu telegraph | sprawl | WoffordWe set out on our Cornbread and Sushi road trip to look for the changing South, and driving through Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Roanoke, and Charlottesville we found it-towns changed to edge-cities, farmland changed to suburbs, two-lanes changed to four-lanes, small-scale farming changed to corporate agriculture, mom-and-pop businesses changed to chain stores.
Like a Fox on the Run
Submitted by John Lane on Fri, 11/03/2006 - 11:01am. Cornbread & Sushi | hunting | kudzu telegraph | WoffordLast week Richard Rankin visited our Rural South class at Wofford. Richard's a headmaster of a private school up in Gastonia, but much of his passion and pleasure is found in the subject of hunting in the South. He's got a PhD from the University of North Carolina in history, has edited an anthology of North Carolina nature writers, and compiled a history of a vast hunt club on Hilton Head Island that survived until vacation development became the chief industry of the island and sport hunting was pushed elsewhere. He's probably thought longer and deeper about hunting than anyone I know.
