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GRITS: Loretta Lynn
This article is part of a series titled “GRITS: Girls Raised in the South,” in which we profile some of our favorite Dixie ladies and the things that make them awesome. Got an idea for a fabulous femme we should feature? Shoot us an email at zeldaandscout@gmail.com! (Alliteration optional.) Name: Loretta Lynn (née Webb) Born: April 14th, 1932, Butcher…
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Just Folks: Patrick Cox
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have Patrick Cox. This mathematician,…
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Ease On Down the Road
The sun is out, the air is clear, and the windows of my six-speed Mini are down as I snake around the turns of the winding road by the Ohio River. On the third day of my recent visit home to Louisville, I took a drive, about an hour long, out to Middletown and down…
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October Playlist: Drizzly Morning, 3 a.m.
Don’t you just love New York in the fall? While it does put us in the mood to buy school supplies, those drizzly October evenings can get us feeling a bit melancholy and nostalgic, wistful for days past or for dreams still unrealized. When it’s 3 a.m. and sleep is nowhere in sight, sometimes all…
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Just Folks: Jason Edwards
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have Jason Edwards, aspiring fiction…
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Home is Where the Throw Pillows Are
I woke up excited one morning this week. The sky was blue, the leaves were wilting into gold, and for the first time this year, the air had that crisp bite that signaled the beginning of my favorite season. I love fall. I love the changing leaves and cozy afternoons in coffee shops, the sweaters…
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Say (Beer) Cheese!
Have you ever discovered that something you thought was totally commonplace, so normal that you never even gave it a second thought, was actually entirely unique to your specific existence? It blows your mind. It shakes up your world for a second. I had one of these moments recently, a mini-earthquake of my existence, all thanks…
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Just Folks: Anita Badejo
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have Anita Badejo. A Nigerian-Hungarian…
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Ev’ry Wildcat Star Will Shine
Note: This is the first mention of sports on this blog, but not the last. We wouldn’t be doing the South justice without some mention of college sports and the surrounding festivities. *Zelda would like the readers to know that she knows what’s right in the world and therefore does not support the University of…
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Bless your heart, New York: Sweet or Unsweet
This article is part of an ongoing series titled “Bless Your Heart, New York,” in which we ever so sweetly remind the Big Apple of the things they are doing oh so wrong. Bless their hearts. Dear New York, We need to talk. There is a question every Southerner holds near and dear to her…
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