By James B. Twitchell
ISBN-10: 0807137618
ISBN-13: 9780807137611
In glance Away, Dixieland, Vermont-native Twitchell units out from his present domestic in
Florida at the inauguration day of America’s first black president to discover the “real” South and to attempt to appreciate the reality approximately his illustrious ancestor. He travels in an RV from Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp throughout Alabama and Mississippi to Coushatta, Louisiana. As he drives in the course of the middle of Dixie, Twitchell varieties in the course of the prejudices he discovered from his northern rearing. In looking for the tradition he had held at arm’s size for thus lengthy, he excursions small-town southern life—in campgrounds, cotton gins, church buildings, kingdom gala's, and squirrel puppy kennels—and uncovers a few basic truths alongside the way in which. particularly, he discovers that prejudices of race, classification, and beliefs aren't constrained through geography. As one guy from Georgia sarcastically summed up North as opposed to South stereotypes, “Y’all are impolite and we’re stupid.”
Unexpectedly, Twitchell additionally uncovers proof approximately his great-grandfather and sheds new gentle on his family’s prior. An enlightening, funny, and refreshingly sincere seek, glance Away, Dixieland finds a number of the changes and similarities that eventually outline us as a nation.