There was a time in American history when this was the goal of a “Man Cave” for middle-class men. Living like the aristocracy was a goal. Today, it’s TVs, gaming, not books. (Blah, blah, I know, “Well, not for me and I read on a tablet”…Ok, congrats. No need to reply).
This passage always gets me
"Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. The men were silent and they did not move often. And the women came out of the houses to stand beside their men–to feel
Rich Men North of Richmond has been uploaded to all major streaming platforms and will show up there in a few days.
Im still in a state of shock at the outpouring of love I've seen in the comments, messages and emails. I'm working to respond to everyone as quickly as possible.
Watching Terminal List with the wife. A scene reminded me when I had to run up a mountain carrying about 80lbs in my pack while rounds snapped over head and kicked up rocks at my feet. I was hoping one would hit me because I was so tired. They missed, made it to the top.
This song is called "Rich Men North of Richmond." It has been viewed MILLIONS of times.
The artist's name is Oliver Anthony. I just got off the phone with him.
With his permission, I'd like to share the story he told me that moved the deepest parts of my soul...
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: After offering to cover the cost to produce Oliver Anthony’s album, legendary country producer
@johnrich
has agreed to PRODUCE THAT RECORD!!
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offers to assist with distribution. Holy s**t!!!! 🤯
Oliver Anthony, email me back!!
"The contrast between silence and sound, darkness and light, like that between summer and winter, was more strongly marked than it is in our lives. The modern town hardly knows silence or darkness in their purity, nor the effect of a solitary light or a single distant cry."
Washington & Lee is planning to remove the grave marker of General Lee’s horse, Traveller. Our beloved old universities have become dens of communist cultural destruction.
Douglas Southall Freeman calculated that he spent 6,100 hours on the 4 vols of R. E. Lee.
Henry Steele Commager told Freeman that R.E. Lee was the greatest of all American biographies. Gen. Douglas MacArthur wrote Freeman: “I congratulate you on the production of a masterpiece.”
Southern universities were wild places before the Civil War. Southern gentlemen greatly resented taking orders from men they perceived as their social inferiors, a group they felt often included their professors.
He was growing into middle age, and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. He installed himself in a rocking chair and smoked a cigar down in the evenings as his wife wiped her pink hands on an apron and reported happily on their two children.
His children knew his
Andrew Lytle on how traditional cuisine stabilizes society:
A traditional cuisine, composed of culinary crafts, the basic ones inherited, does two things to stabilize society. It demands good manners, and this restrains appetite and thus makes for the etiquette of the table,
POV: you're drinking bourbon, holding daughter so wife can sleep, and thinking about that guy who told you "if you think you're right-wing now, just wait until your daughter is born."
From the shelves:
See book w/ Donald Davidson inscription at low price. Click buy. Delivered. Read inscription. Hmm, Homer Noble Farms sounds familiar. OH! That's Robert Frost's farm in Vermont. Davidson & Frost were friends. This is Robert Frost's copy. Thanks yankee bookshop
Had the honor of spending the past few days with the great James Everett Kibler at his historic home Ballylee.
@PASeay13
and I imbibed Madeira & Bourbon as Dr. Kibler told stories and delivered a masterclass in English, Irish, and Southern literature. A true Southern Gentleman.
A few things for those with ears to hear from my recent reading of Missouri history. At the advent of the Civil War Missouri was still largely a frontier state a—Southern frontier state. In 1860 75% of the people were of Southern stock, w/ Southern family ties & cultural bonds.
"After the South had been conquered by war, humiliated, and impoverished by peace, there remained something which made the South different. That too must be invaded and destroyed; so there commenced a second war of conquest, the conquest of the Southern mind" - Frank L. Owsley
Let their memory sear like summer sun.
Neath the endless azure sky, Where the ancient mountains keep time, rock and blood intertwined. Dying in a distant land, For a cause they barely knew, At the behest of a distant hand, To a nation's drum they flew. In the halls of power,
A study, first of its kind, unravels the South's deep, century-spanning reverence for the classics, a torch carried from colonial authors to James Dickey. In 'Classical Origins', Kibler lays bare the unique classical moulds shaping the South and the English Gentry, contrasting
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1723-1793) is a key figure in Southern literary history. She re-introduced indigo to America in 1740. Her descendants helped spark the Southern Renaissance. And When she died in 1793, George Washington asked to be one of her pallbearers. ->
This is what happens when you ignore the Pat Buchanan was right tweets and don't read the Southern Agrarians, M.E. Bradford, Russell Kirk, Richard M. Weaver, etc. They're still trying to assimilate us, and our Ancestors have been here for 400 years.
Unpopular take: mass immigration could save this country. These are hard-working, mostly Christian/Catholic people coming in. The Democrats want to immediately hook them on welfare and turn them into a permanent underclass voting bloc. We could prevent that by assimilating them.
I recently recorded a conversation with my grandpa. In this clip, he's talking about his brother Joe and how he'd get to fighting in beer joints on Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee.
Brunswick Stew is arguably the king of southern stews. You will find it in many BBQ restaurants and many families have their own recipe. Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia all claim to have invented this stew but I think it’s origins go back further in time.
“George Washington once laughingly referred to his house as ‘a well-resorted tavern.’ Uninvited guests were not refused hospitality in Virginia by gentlemen. He once wrote that he and Martha had not sat down alone to a dinner for twenty years.”
Today in History:
In 1814, we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
Listen to Donald Davidson read his poem "Lee in the Mountains." Originally written in 1938, eight years after his participation in writing "I'll Take My Stand" with the other Fugitive Agrarians, and the same year as his masterful "Attack on Leviathan."
You got Alexei, Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alxeichick, Lyosha, Lyoshenka. Yeah, that's just one guy. Then there's this dude Dmitri,
Mitka, Mitya, Mitenka, Mitri. The third guy Ivan, Vanya, Vanka, Vanechka....
There weren't any bachelorette parties or pedal taverns in Vernon Oxford's Nashville, only a city of broken strings, where the wind carries the echoes of forgotten kings. Hard are the falls that cometh after the pride, Hank Williams shadow ain't no place to hide.
We do a little wholesome posting.
Learned I looked like my Great Grandma, Mama Griffie, flipping through old family photos. Lord willing, long after I've returned to dust, my great-great-grandchild will say, “I look just like Grandaddy Steely.”
If Southern poetry had flourished prior to the Civil War, it became increasingly dormant in the half century after Appomattox. During this time, only Sidney Lanier could be considered a major Southern poet, and he died in 1881.
In the three decades after Lanier's demise, the