A conversation with Reynolds Price

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Novelist Reynolds Price has published several commendable novels and collections of poetry, essays, translations, television dramas and plays. Price writes mostly about Southern families and how families deal with crisis. His latest novel is 'Blue Calhoun,' about life in the south in the 1950s.

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The cowboy chronicler

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Texas artist Red Steagal has spent almost his entire life and career glorifying the cowboy tradition. In his poems and songs, as well as his regular radio program, Steagal expresses his identification with a tradition that continues to exist.

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The African violet family of Tennessee

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The first African violets came to Europe in 1892 after a German farmer found the plant growing on his plantation in East Africa. The Hermans produced a plant of non-dropping African Violets and the flower's popularity began to bloom.

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