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978-0-9624255-1-6
1-9624255-1-6
$6.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
96 pages
black-and-white photographs
Down Home Press
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Since 1977, readers of the Charlotte
Observer have looked forward to Lew Powell's satirical
year-in-review pages. Lew Powell's Carolina Follies contains more
than 200 of his funniest items.
Examples include:
South Carolina? Oh yeah, I
remember now--it's on the way to Myrtle Beach, right? A survey of
North Carolina college students' knowledge of geography showed that 5%
didn't know North Carolina bordered South Carolina.
Not tonight, Maude, I've
got a Klan meeting. University of North Carolina sociologists
reported that fears engendered by the 1954 Supreme Court school
desegregation ruling may have caused a drop in the birthrate of white
Southerners.
He's got an ironclad
alibi, your Honor--he was on his way to Mt. Pilot with Goober.
Greensboro lawyer Louis Allen reported success in invoking the
"Mayberry Defense," likening his clients to Sheriff Taylor and
other characters from The Andy Griffith Show.
about the author
Lew Powell has been a reporter and copy editor at the Charlotte
Observer since 1974. His stories have also appeared in The Nation,
Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Times. He
lives in Charlotte with his wife.
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