Drinking lemonade, duct taping my water sprinkler together so I can hydrate the crispy lawn and sitting under the ceiling fan on the front porch have been some of my summertime activities so far this year.
The heat won't let me forget I live in Louisiana. But even then sometimes I stumble upon places or things that will remind me full force that I live in the South. I found this headstone in a cemetery just a couple of blocks from the house.
On June 2, 1865 (one and a half months after President Lincoln was killed), in downtown Shreveport the last Confederate national flag was furled when the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army, headquartered in our town, surrendered.
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