So many summer movies to see, but BUCK tops the list.Read about this real horse whisperer at brannaman.com.
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Rick Bragg’s Traveling Food
In this month’s Southern Living, Rick Bragg reminisces about some of the greatest meals he’s had on the road. Not fast food, mind you, but “traveling food.” And among his favorite stops are Tweener’s Cafe, started by Pee Wee Johnson and now run by his daughters, and Cecil’s Place – both of which happen to be right near our farm.
“It was always dusk and, it seems, always summer. My aunts would steer their Chevelles and Monte Carlos onto the gravel at Pee Wee Johnson’s joint. Change purses clutched in their fists, they would step into line with mill workers, pulp-wooders, and downy-faced soldiers destined for Vietnam. That takeout window in Jacksonville, Alabama, united us all with a common desire: the perfect footlong.”
Come for a visit this summer and we’ll go grab a footlong or a chocolate shake!
Smooth Music for a Thursday
Brave Little Creatures
Just a quick little update on the February post, “Things That Bring Me Joy.”
The Chertoff Mural by Maurice Sendak is now fully restored and on display at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. The Philly Inquirer caught up with the 82-year-old author/artist last month for his thoughts on the project. Sendak recalls fondly the period in 1961 when he created what was to become his only mural…how he shlepped up regularly from Greenwich Village, stood for long hours on a ladder surrounded by brushes and paint cans, and painted the whimsical children’s parade – all while the Chertoff children played around him and ran in and out of their little bedroom overlooking Manhattan’s Central Park. He was known to them then simply as “Uncle Moo Moo.” Read the full interview…
“I take kids seriously,” he says. “They have a lot of things wrong. They protect their parents. Children are brave little creatures.”
The Chertoff Mural. Copyright 1961 by Maurice Sendak. All rights reserved.
