Here are three remarkable sentences I've come across in the last few days in the course of doing this job. Take a moment to savor them with me, will you? :
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2) From a random, rambling & rather lovely reader email: "That day in 1945, I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting beside him on the seat of an old buckboard wagon being pulled by a mule." (extra points for mule reference, known at NYT South as "The
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3) The closing sentence of an angry letter from a concerned citizen to a Southern public official: "You bunch of Boss Hogg turnip truck riding crackers can go STRAIGHT to hell."
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This one really should be a national motto for some as-yet-unformed nation.
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This one is my favorite. “Turnip truck riding crackers” goes into the witty insults book.
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