:::Where Can I Learn About *True* Southern Culture, History, Traditions? (Charlotte: new home, live)
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My Wife & I are visiting CLT in April, and I wanted to know where I might learn about *genuine* (as opposed to rewritten) Southern culture, history, and traditions?
The reason is simple:
We're fully persuaded that the views of the South are more in keeping with what we hold dear - thus we want to learn about, and perpetuate, the ideals and customs that are in keeping with what will be our new home.
I have visited Greenville and Charleston - and appreciated what I saw there, but wondered if there's any genuine Southern history/culture exhibits around Charlotte?
Second thing I wondered about:
The Battle Flag, to me, always stood for states rights. In all of my travels around Charlotte, I wonder if I saw one - which struck me funny, because I've seen the Battle Flag flown at homes in mid-Atlantic states. Are the Battle Flag and the Gadsden Flag no longer a part of the South?
Thanks in advance for your comments...feel free to PM me if you like.
This would probably do better in the multi-state forum (like "History/Culture"?) Charlotte is so full of ex-Northerners that you aren't going to find "true Southern Culture" there or in any city in the Sunbelt. Smaller towns/cities outside the metro areas would be more "old-fashioned". If you want to stick with NC, pick up a copy of Our State magazine and look into some of the smaller places they write about.
The Levine Museum is a good bet for regular visits. It is in central Charlotte, parking is pretty good. I'd suggest reading southern authors, especially Ron Rash. One Foot in Eden describes the time when the TVA was remaking much of the App Mt. area. He'll be doing a reading soon at Wingate U, about 20 miles east of Charlotte.
Then again there's the music of the mountains. These are 4 KY girls but the fiddle player was nice enough to hang with me for a couple of years down here in Waxhaw.
Then again there's the music of the mountains. These are 4 KY girls but the fiddle player was nice enough to hang with me for a couple of years down here in Waxhaw.
I don't think "Southern" when I think of bluegrass. The mountains don't stop at the PA state line.
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