Comments on: A Domestic Trilogy #2 — Reading Beulah Land

By: Gloria N. Aitken

Gloria N. Aitken — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:02:20 +0000

I know the house in the picture. :]
I lived in Lowndesboro, up until last June, and that was right down the road from where I lived.

By: J. Stephen Conn

J. Stephen Conn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:42:09 +0000

I’m flattered that you liked my copyrighted photograph of Dunleith Plantation. However, to use it without permission is both against the law and against common courtesy. I almost always grant permission for folks to use my photos on their blogs, but ONLY with permission and ONLY when it is properly attributed to the photographer, J. Stephen Conn.

Perhaps you found the photo either on Flickr.com or Virtualtourist.com. Either way, it’s mine, and I expect an apology. I also expect credit for the photo.

By: Kip Kinisky

Kip Kinisky — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:02:43 +0000

Sir,

Thank you for this wonderful post and confession. I too have a great fixation on the Old South and romance novels (pre 1985) are essential in feeding my taste. The non-political correctness, the details of the lavish lifestyles by the great planters and their families, the gorgeous, spoiled brat southern belles in their billowing taffeta hoops and the solomn black house slaves that wait on them hand and foot is quite heavenly to me. The Magnolia Series by Pinnacle books in the early ’90s did a decent job reviving the Antebellum romance period, but it would be the last attempt from a market standpoint. If you enjoy books, what do you think of the wave of plantation movies from the 1930s? I recently caught the rare 1938 film The Toy Wife which features some of the most amazing dresses and lavish mansions I’ve seen in comparison to Gone with the Wind’s Tweleve Oaks and Tara. North and South from the mid ’80s did a great job illustrating the plantation way of life especially with the character Ashton Main, a sultry, tempting, plantation princess who loved her South, loved her youth and her beau, and despised Lincoln and abolitionists. She was, like Scarlett O’Hara, one of the ultimate southern belles.

Would love to hear more about your fixation.

By: judylobo

judylobo — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:58:01 +0000

I wish I knew you back then and had been invited to your cotton ‘ball’ backyard bash. Loved your imagery,

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:09:28 +0000

No wonder we became fast friends in 1977. Or was it 1978? You were drawing Antebellum homes and making furniture out of pieces of paper with a razor blade. I mentioned that I had been to Natchez numerous time and had family that lived in Mississippi. And THAT WAS THAT! Best Friends I’m surprised you didn’t make me wear hoop skirts on the #2 train to Flatbush!

By: James Baldwin

James Baldwin — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:41:22 +0000

Fun read.
Thanks,
Jim Baldwin
Spokane WA

By: Susan L

Susan L — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:18:32 +0000

Lord, cousin Jimmy! That blog of the semi-faux, fabulous south is sublime. As a southern girl myself, it’s high time I took that long-delayed literary journey to Beulahland.
hugs-a-rama,
Susan