From Azaleas to Zydeco : My 4,600-Mile Journey Through the South.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Third Battle of Manassas -- Polo Place -- Travel Notes: What's a Cavalier? -- RVa -- All Come to Look for America -- Travel Notes: What's a Tar Heel? -- Dobbies and Pout Houses -- The Research Triangle -- Sustainability in Greensboro -- Trains, Furniture, and Krispy Kreme -- Towel Town No More -- Sister City -- They Glue Lug Nuts on Wheels -- Ella May's Ghost -- America's First Civil War Battle -- Hub-Bub in the Hub City -- Downtown New South -- Jerusalem Artichokes and Robert Kennedy -- The Mountains -- Cashiers -- Franklin -- The Smoky Mountains -- Good Old Rocky Top -- Norris, the Planned Community -- Hard-bitten Land -- Chattanooga Rebound -- A Civil Misunderstanding -- Alabama Retail -- Alabama Wholesale -- Driving the Natchez Trace Parkway -- Nashville Hootenanny -- Mississippi Embayment -- Travel Notes: What's a Julep? -- Day Trip to Arkansas -- The Delta in Mississippi -- Cosmopolitan Helena -- Duck Gumbo -- Meeting the Governor -- Water, Water Everywhere -- I'm Only 75 -- Nitta Yuma -- A Coffee Shop in Vicksburg -- Mississippi Praying -- Wide Spot on Highway 28 -- Not a Soul in Sight -- The Rose Lady Comes to Camellia Land -- The Salon at Ravennaside -- McDonald's Comes to St. Francisville -- Crossing the River by Ferryboat -- Baton Rouge, Huey Long, and the Movie Industry -- On to Opelousas -- Travel Notes: What's a Coon Ass? -- Cajun vs. Coon Ass -- Zydeco Dancing -- Boudin, Sugar Cane Farming, and More Crawfish -- The Road to New Orleans -- Once the Levees Break -- Mississippi Gulf Coast -- Travel Notes: Beauvoir -- Mobile -- Hank, Biscuits, and Green Roofs -- Forty Miles to Tuskegee -- Fender Bender in Birmingham -- Travel Notes: Iced or Hot? Sweet or Un? -- Metropolitan Atlanta -- Traveling South Georgia.

Happy Animals. Good Cheese -- Tallahassee -- Ybor City -- Cracker from Kissimmee -- The First Coast -- Stuck in South Georgia -- Savannah -- Travel Notes: Georgilina -- Coastalitis -- Carolina Gold -- Flatland to Fall Line -- Epilogue: June 2013 -- Sources -- Songs from the Journey -- Index -- About the Author.

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