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American South Road Trip With Music

Travel Music

Destination: American South

Albums: Camilla, Wellspring, Twilight by Caroline Herring

BY KERRY DEXTER

Caroline Herring knows the American South, its heart and soul, its history and landscapes. The stories which rise from this deep knowledge of her native ground are what she draws on the create her music.

The name of her album Camilla is  also the name of a small town in Georgia. Continue reading American South Road Trip With Music

Road Trip Visits Mark Twain in MO

Hannibal MO

See where The Great American Road Trip 7-2010 has been in a larger map.

The Great American Road Trip

Destination: Missouri

Book: Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, in The Library of America Edition

Mark Twain, who captured America like no other American writer, wandered the globe and lived abroad nearly as many years as he lived in the United States. As a matter of fact many of his most American books were penned while he luxuriated in villas in the Italian countryside. Continue reading Road Trip Visits Mark Twain in MO

Road Trip Travelers Meet Faulkner in Mississippi

The Great American Road Trip

Oxford, Mississippi - William Faulkner´s Rowan Oak

Destination: Mississippi

Author: William Faulkner

THE CORN SHUCKER’S COUNTRY

A Guest Post by Paul William Kaser

To understand the world you must first understand a place like Mississippi. William Faulkner

Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha (the name is borrowed from a real stream in Layfette County, Mississippi), is a fictional county that may be more real to millions of readers than any place they have actually visited. Continue reading Road Trip Travelers Meet Faulkner in Mississippi