What was your name before that? I asked. Frank, she said.

He was a nice fellow, Williams says. He could be charming. He had his girlfriend, I had mine. But to me, sex is just a natural thing. We'd had sex a few times. Didn't bother me. Didn't bother him. I...

Chigarid. The man who

lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah!" He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto."

We're not at all like the rest of Georgia. We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In...

According to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, more than 8 percent of Savannah's adults were known alcoholics

saying, I originally left the door unlocked as a matter of convenience. But pretty soon I realized that whenever the doorbell did ring, it was someone I didn't know. So the bell became a signal that a...

Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone. Time

How do you do that? I asked. What do witches eat? Witches loves pork meat, she said. They loves rice and potatoes. They loves black-eyed peas and cornbread. Lima beans, too, and collard greens and...

Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it

rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.

If you did not like the show, honey, my name is Nancy Reagan and go fuck yourself. Chablis

more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

Jim Williams's guilt or innocence is no longer the issue," he said. "Spencer Lawton's incompetence is the issue.

The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow.

because it's my job. It's how I make my living. And I'll tell you somethin' else: It's damn hard work bein' a girl full

the doorbell rang again, and there was Mrs. Onassis and her friend Maurice

Don't you feel cut off? I asked. Cut off from what? she replied. No, on the whole I'd say we rather enjoy our separateness.

There being no direct route to Savannah from Charleston, I followed a zigzagging course that took me through the tidal flatlands of the South Carolina low country. As I approached Savannah, the road...

{Quoting Miss Harty:}People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah...

Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.

We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden...

The South is one big drag show, honey {...}.

If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it...

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its...

But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life...

Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I...

She was a marvel. She did exactly as she pleased all her life, God bless her.