But what about the cartridge , for crissake ? ! Well , I happen to have it in my very own men , and not because the free first result I signed up for has go far yet . ( Ever ? We ’ll see . ) No , a supporter lend me a copy her fisherman husband buy and wow – it cry mellow - course of instruction , but mostly in a good agency . ( Unlike those society magazines with page after page of fertile , skinny woman in eventide apparel . lecture about the barf factor . )
But this serious magazine deserve a serious review .
THE NAMENow I ’ve read all about the original Garden&Gun , the ’ 70s dance nine in Charleston that the Godhead of this powder magazine like so much they thought it would be nerveless to quicken the name . Reportedly all sorts of races and sexual orientations mixed it up on its saltation floor and I appreciate that , you count . But here ’s the rub : it ’s only a cool magazine name for the select few who ’ve ever heard of the damn club . And not so cool to the targeted readers in the toniest zip code across the South and in the metro NY and DC areas ( according to their website ) , to whom the title of respect is a big “ What the F**K ? ? ” Or fodder for jokes . Not to advert a disappointment to people look for either gun or garden content because guess what – it ’s not about either gun or gardens .
INSIDE THE COVEROkay , have ’s get past the title ( and I desire this magazine CAN . ) Just await at the masking – Pat Conroy ! And inside I find not just his clause but others by Clyde Edgerton and Reynolds Price and I ’m just enough of a reader to be impressed , boastful - time . There are also pieces about the Nature Conservancy , fishing , a LEED - attest nursing home in Atlanta , a Virginia wine maker , the funkier side of Asheville , and an 11 - varlet spread about Jefferson ’s Monticello . So maybe the mag is what the editor hop it ’ll be : “ The unspoiled of the 21st Century American South . ” It ’s off to a great kickoff .
ANOTHER REVIEWThis articlein Media Post begin with the obvious : “ true , the claim grabs you , ” but goes on to shovel high praise on the first edition , calling it a “ presently - to - be shoot with upper crust Southerners ” and concluding with “ Pass the Bourbon dynasty and branch . ” Cute . Interestingly , the reviewer is a “ big lover of celebrating cultural traditions and roots ” but has a cavil with the screen . “ Pat Conroy , ofPrince of Tidesfame , is a gifted author . He writes beautiful prose . But as the top subject , the twenty-first - century South looks suspiciously like the antebellum period — with Dockers . ”
Well , I ’ve got news for the Media Post writer – that ’s how Pat Conroy dresses . And one face at Tom Wolfe reminds us that the antebellum look is far from dead . I say that as someone who left the South for more reformist piss but check onto her preppy look for devout life . And about those tradition and ancestor ? Whenever I listen to the Bluegrass Junction channel on XM Radio – and that ’s daily – I call back my Virginia daddy playing “ Swing low , sweet chariot ” on the guitar and , unfortunately , singing it .
