Word: antebellum
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Mockbee is an advocate of what is called "site specific" architecture, so he made sure that the home picked up qualities of the area's cultural heritage, from its antebellum porches to the curves of silos. And in keeping with the studio's philosophy of building with local and inexpensive materials, the students scavenged for supplies, gathering bales of hay for the walls and sheets of acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed...
...Mockbee is an advocate of what is called "site-specific" architecture, so he made sure that the home picked up qualities of the area's cultural heritage, from its antebellum porches to the curves of silos. And in keeping with the studio's philosophy of building with local and inexpensive materials, the students scavenged for supplies, gathering bales of hay for the walls and sheets of acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed...
...civilized, we should not allow this to happen," says Huff, 51, who grew up here, amid the willows, magnolias and antebellum homes. Natchez has always had its collection of eccentrics (an April Fools' Day Parade is in the works), and it has always had its share of the mentally ill. But it used to be that the latter were packed off forever to an institution far away and the police department could go back to its business of caring for just the eccentrics. But since deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the 1960s, when thousands were released from sometimes abusive institutions...
...killing of unarmed blacks in New York City and the racial profiling practiced by police departments across the nation. These racist acts no longer seem so unusual or exceptional when placed in context with the tenacity by which some southern states still cling to the cherished image of the antebellum South. Until the people of South Carolina admit that whistling Dixie isn't worth dividing the Union, South Carolina will remain a symbol of intolerance and bigotry...
...Texas, the Darlings were a "landed family" in South Carolina and Alabama. The name "Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr." is itself an heirloom, not a pseudo-WASP creation of his parents. It's no wonder that the modern day Darling looks and acts like a relic from the antebellum South. "I don't even own a pair of jeans," he blithely asserts. He tempers that statement with the admission that he did own one pair sometime in high school "as like a club uniform or something." Avoiding casual wear "is not a comfort issue," he maintains; he is just...