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      Author: Tom Poland

      Tom Poland, A Southern Writer – Tom Poland is the author of twelve books and more than 1,000 magazine features. A Southern writer, his work has appeared in magazines throughout the South. Tom grew up in Lincoln County, Georgia, where four wonderful English teachers gave him a love for language. People first came to know Tom’s work in South Carolina Wildlife magazine, where he wrote features and served as managing editor.Tom’s written over 1,000 columns and features and seven traditionally published books. Among his recent books are Classic Carolina Road Trips From Columbia, Georgialina, A Southland, As We Knew It, and his and Robert Clark’s latest volume of Reflections of South Carolina. Swamp Gravy, Georgia’s Official Folk Life Drama, staged his play, Solid Ground in 2011 and 2012.He writes a weekly column for newspapers and journals in Georgia and South Carolina about the South, its people, traditions, lifestyle, and changing culture and speaks often to groups across South Carolina and Georgia.Tom earned a BA in Journalism and a Masters in Media at the University of Georgia. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina where he writes about Georgialina—his name for eastern Georgia and South Carolina. Visit my website at www.tompoland.net Email me at [email protected]
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      Burned To The Ground
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      Hospitality Life People & Places Talk Views The Working Years
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      The Working Years
      Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views The Great Wallenda Walk
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      The Great Wallenda Walk
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      War Letters, Part II
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      War Letters
      Hospitality Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views A Little Breathing Room
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      A Little Breathing Room
      Life People & Places Talk Views Friends Called Her Kitty
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      Friends Called Her Kitty
      Hospitality Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views The Saw Shop Blues
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      Hospitality Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views The Inevitable Sad Task
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      The Inevitable Sad Task
      Books Life People & Places Talk Views Falling Leaves
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      Hospitality Life People & Places Talk Views Keeping The Heat At Bay
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      Books Life People & Places Talk Views Remembering A Georgian
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      Books Hospitality Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views Savannah’s Flannery O’Connor Day
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      Hospitality Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views Down In Camellia Land
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      Wall Dogs & Ghost Signs
      Hospitality People & Places Talk Views Black From Tula & The Mortgage Lifter
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      Black From Tula & The Mortgage Lifter
      People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views NASCAR’s Birthplace
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      NASCAR’s Birthplace
      Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views From Farm Fields To ArtFields
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      Luncheon at the Salt Mine

      In the fullness of time, I have had Corporate Lunches in all kinds of settings. Fine restaurants, some in exotic overseas locations. Shanghai hairy crab and Singapore fish head curry. Sandwiches and salads in the office cafeteria. You name it; I’ve probably had it for lunch somewhere ... with

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      Our Gentle, Rolling Land

      Our Gentle, Rolling Land

      For five months I’ve been the first person to see the magnificent photographs Robert Clark is taking for our fourth book on South Carolina. Each day is long but good. For about nine hours a day, with breaks of course, I sort and evaluate images and place the ones with most potential in the appropr

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      Them vs. Us

      Tom: Six members of the Walton family (Wal-mart) have more wealth than the bottom 30% of the US population. I guess that puts them in the 1%. Other Guy: It isn't immoral to work hard. they are rich. so what?  They also have created jobs for hundreds of thousands of people. They also have the ab

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      A Night at the NC Legislature

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      How A Mule Kick Killed Eight People

      How A Mule Kick Killed Eight People

      You can drive by a place 1,000 times and be unaware of its history. Such was the case for a small country store on Highway 378 in Edgefield County. Over the years I’ve passed the little store you see with this column 1,000 times and not once did I stop. That changed Sunday, October 13. I did pass

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      Just who the hell are we?

      Just who the hell are we?

      First, yeah this is long, but just maybe, it’s time for long, cuz it’s been a long time comin’. I suppose it all started with Michael Jackson and his desire for a “white” nose, which didn’t turn out so well. Why a really handsome, very talented guy would willingly fuck up his face is

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      Southerner's Guide to Lovin' the London Olympics

      Southerner's Guide to Lovin' the London Olympics

      God bless your heart, you are really going to try this year. You're really going to try. Not to watch at least a little of the telecasts would be downright unpatriotic you tell yourself. [caption id="attachment_41149" align="alignright" width="300"] Olympic mascots Wenlock & Mandeville (Lo

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      Science's Sacred Cows

      In a 1983 address to an international symposium on Galileo, Pope John Paul II issued a stunning pronouncement: The Church is convinced that there can be no real contradiction between science and faith. ... It is certain that science and faith represent two different orders of knowledge, autonomous

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      Don't do it, Joe

      Don't do it, Joe

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      Outlaws no more!

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      Thomas Wolfe was wrong: We can go home again! As two Suthunahs living in exile in New Joisey -- one from Georgia, the other from Alabama -- we share a photo essay of our 41-year marriage  which today the Supreme Court made legal in every state of the union. Samuel A. Ward  was organist a

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      Howard Rich – Carpetbaggers, Scalawags and Laboratory Mice

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      Man On Horseback

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      The South faces growing school segregation

      The South faces growing school segregation

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      What we need: Real Christian-Muslim dialogue

      What we need: Real Christian-Muslim dialogue

      As she so often does, Gail Collins of The New York Times summed up the situation with pinpoint precision today when she wrote that "it is important to remember that about 5 percent of our population is and always will be totally crazy." She wasn't talking about people who suffer from a form of me

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      Pickpockets and con artists

      This is my citizen comment to the Georgia Public Service Commission, 11/8/2010, in opposition to a Georgia Power rate increase request of one Billion dollars, on top of recent increases they've already been granted. Part of the reason for the request is that Georgia Power's Moody's credit rating has

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      Don't fly me to the moon

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      Egypt: Roots of a Revolution

      The popular uprising in Egypt is an earth-shaking event - what happens here could determine the course of the region and thus the world for the foreseeable future. But where did it all begin? Some point to Tunisia. Others point to Facebook. Still others remark that this has been brewing for decades,

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      A Yankee Christmas

      A Yankee Christmas

      Movies, advertising, and story books have influenced generations of American children in how to visualize the ideal American Christmas.  The iconic Coca Cola Santa comes mind; after all it is the south who introduced the world to Coke. Bing Crosby introduced the song White Christmas to the world i

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      President Donald J. Trump: the First 100 Days

      President Donald J. Trump: the First 100 Days

      Donald Trump’s relentless promise to Make America Great Again carried him through the Republican primaries with surprising efficiency. He beat Marco Rubio in the Midwest, easily carried Florida and the West, and fought off a late entry by Michael Bloomberg. The Republican convention became a p

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      Citizen Cain

      Citizen Cain

      So, I’m reading an article on a blog where yet another Internet yowler (a category I cheerfully inhabit) is baffled by the Big Casino’s support of Herman Cain.  Context:  “But wait, isn’t the ‘right’ supposed to be racist?” I’ve never clapped eyes on Cain in real life, never had

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