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From the Front Porch

Episode 171 || Southern Literary Trail

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Want to take a book-themed summer road trip and see where some of your favorite Southern authors lived and breathed? Well then we have the show for you. This week, Chris and Annie talk about the Southern Literary Trail, organized by the Mississippi State University libraries. Learn more at their website. Selected authors on the Trail: + Truman Capote + Harper Lee + F. Scott Fitzgerald + Zelda Fitzgerald + Ralph Ellison + Carson McCullers + Flannery O'Connor + Alice Walker + Tennessee Williams + Eudora Welty + Walker Percy + Richard Wright + William Faulkner Check out the Outdoor Kitchens menu for the 2018 Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival here. Learn more about the Historic Mary Elizabeth Stallworth Home Bed and Breakfast in Beatrice, Alabama here. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

Do you know anything about the Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot?

0:06.4

I don't because despite everything about my personality that says I should love Epcot, I've actually never been.

0:13.3

Okay.

0:13.9

That's a travesty.

0:15.1

Yeah.

0:16.1

And you still have time this year.

0:18.7

I'm not dead yet.

0:19.7

You're not dead yet, but also they do this every

0:22.3

year. Okay. Um, so Epcot at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I'm not doing an ad for Disney,

0:28.7

but that's what it sounds like now. But if they wanted to, if they wanted to, my email is podcast

0:34.4

at bookshelfthomasville.com. No, um, I went to Epcot last weekend with my parents and my aunt and my brother and Kelsey,

0:43.4

which was a lot of fun.

0:46.0

All adults?

0:47.2

All adults.

0:47.9

Okay.

0:48.1

Yep.

0:48.9

And so Epcot is kind of the Disney Park for adults because there are not very many rides.

0:53.9

Okay.

1:12.4

Pretty much everything is educational. Oh, this is my favorite. And it's centered around food and drink. Okay. Every place has like restaurants in it. Okay. And especially during the Flower and Garden Festival in the spring and the Food and Wine Festival in the fall. I've heard about food and wine. They have specialty like kiosks that are there for like two months.

1:12.9

Okay.

1:17.3

That have country-specific cuisine.

1:17.9

Okay.

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