Culture

Focus of Celebration: consider first your purpose(s) for the celebration, such as: Strengthen family bonding with each other Expand upon existing patterns of family celebrations Attune family to Nature’s cycles Attune family to its membership in the community of all life on planet Earth…

Gap-toothed Blacks laughing at Archie Lee as Baby Doll berates him. by Andrew Hamilton IN A recent essay about playwright Tennessee Williams and Greek American director Elia Kazan’s flagrantly anti-Southern motion picture Baby Doll (1956) I observed in passing that Blacks are present as furniture,…

“Talk about genetic deficiencies.” Inbred idiot savant Lonnie in the famous “dueling banjos” scene from Hollywood’s 1972 filmization of Atlanta-born James Dickey’s novel Deliverance. Dickey wrote the screenplay and appeared in a bit part as a redneck sheriff. The music was arranged and recorded…

by Douglas Mercer NEARLY EVERYONE in the 18th Century thought that ancient Greek was the perfect language. They marveled at its expressiveness, its clarity. They described it as limpid and transparent, like a smooth and clear-running stream. They said that experiencing the language of Homer was…

by Chris Rossetti DID YOU THINK that the Jews would leave us alone in our rural redoubts? Did you think that the (relatively) healthy farmers and woodsmen and Scots-Irish mountain folks and small-town businessmen and city Whites like me who fled to the country to escape the Brown Tide and its Hebrew orchestrators…

The 1956 premiere of playwright Tennessee Williams’ anti-Southern film Baby Doll. by Andrew Hamilton SOUTHERN playwright Tennessee Williams, “a descendant of hardy East Tennessee pioneer stock,” is considered, together with Irish American Eugene O’Neill, and Jewish Arthur Miller, to…

Ashley M. Jones In which we meet the Pote Loryut of Alabama by Douglas Mercer THE RENOWNED David Sims recently said that when it comes to Blacks, the costs are too great. And the bills keep rolling in. Now Alabamans, for four long and grueling years, are going to have to listen to a blimp-like baboon tell…

by Blake Hood Backcountry History I WILL REFRAIN from delving too deeply into original customs of the Borderers. Fisher himself has already done great work on this which you can find here. But it is important to this theory that one understands exactly when these people arrived in America and where…

by Blake Hood WHAT DOES Backcountry Futurism mean? Backcountry futurism is an idea I have been playing around with in my head for the last year or so. It grew out of my conviction that Albion’s Seed is not only a penetrating look into American’s past, but it may actually predict our future as well. As I reread…

Robert Lynch by Karl Gunther AT THE presidential inauguration after the 1960 election, flinty Yankee and American traditionalist Robert Frost read one his his poems. Thirty-two years later, after the 1992 election, Negroid poetess Maya Angelou got the nod, and in her “poem” she moralized…