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Sean of the South

Marigold

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The blind coon hound, Marigold. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, and his c...

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Find your nearest store at foodcity.com. Well, I imagine in light of all these current events that are taking place and all these world horrors that we see on the news every day, especially within the last few weeks, I imagine that everybody is anxious to hear me talk about my dog,

1:14.2

which I'm going to do.

1:15.8

I'm going to talk about Marigold.

1:18.5

Marigold is my blind cune hound.

1:20.7

We got her from Mississippi.

1:23.3

She was found behind a tire shed in Mississippi, and she had been abused, and her head had been hit, the vet said, with a blunt object.

1:33.2

And it had crushed her skull a little bit in the front, causing her to lose the one eye, which has been surgically removed in her eyelids sewn shut.

1:42.5

And the other eye is still there, but it doesn't work.

1:44.7

It's dead.

1:45.8

But it's not causing her any pain.

1:47.3

So we keep the eye there because it shows us a wide variety of her expressions and her.

1:54.7

Dogs don't show emotion on their face, but they really do show expression on their face.

2:00.3

And it gives us a little bit of who she is having that eye.

2:05.1

One eye makes such a huge difference.

2:06.8

But perhaps if it gives her problems someday, that will have to be removed too.

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