Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Coming through the fire / C. Eric Lincoln
  • What do you do for the place? / Patricia Foster
  • The truth the heart knows / Fannie Flagg
  • Swing low: a memoir / Mary Ward Brown
  • The humanistic Black heritage of Alabama / James Haskins
  • Growing up a poet in Alabama / Andrew Glaze
  • Stalking an early life / Helen Norris
  • Learning to swim / Wayne Greenhaw
  • The other sun of God / Nanci Kincaid
  • The ghosts in my grandmother's attic / Robert Inman
  • Alabama breakdown / Andrew Hudgins
  • The first place / Phyllis Alesia Perry
  • A half mile of road in north Alabama / Rodney Jones
  • When the Opry was in Ryman and we still believed in God / William Cobb
  • The heart of Dixie / Frye Gaillard
  • Thunderhoof and the mantel clock / Sena Jeter Naslund
  • Growing up in Alabama: a meal in four courses, beginning with dessert / Charles Gaines
  • Coming home / Judith Hillman Paterson
  • Epilogue: regional particulars and universal implications / Albert Murray
  • Afterword / Mark Kennedy.