Sunday, August 11, 2013

Till I Have To Go Home

A lot of people not familiar with the Gulf Coast of Mississippi may wonder just what sort of "Southern accent" the kids in my novel A Death on the Wolf have. This is an excerpt from a news story taken in Pass Christian just after Camille went through in 1969. This boy is digging through the rubble looking for anything that could be salvaged and the reporter is asking him about it. The boy has the quintessential Southern Mississippi accent. 

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