Browder's South

I was pleased to have an opportunity to speak with former Alabama 3rd District Congressman Glen Browder at the Book Festival at Old Alabama Town. The first volume in his new trilogy of books about politics and The South is due out in May, titled "The South's New Racial Politics" from NewSouth Books. Our conversation was off the record, but the topic was the 2010 race for governor, speculating about the candidates various strengths and weaknesses. Also spoke briefly with Martin Olliff, the Director of Wiregrass History and Culture at Troy University Dothan, and chatted with students at Booker T Washington H.S., a magnet school in the Capitol, who were selling copies of their literary magazine Graphophobia* as a fundraiser for their attendance at U.C. Berkley. Bill Rice of The Montgomery Independent was selling prints of his cityscape of Montgomery. Nice turnout for the event, and only about ten drops of rain in advance of the real rain event tomorrow.

[*a fear of writing]