A Country Rag ~ Site Credits
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming 'Wow, what a ride!'" -- unattributed, courtesy of Carolyn Moore"I am Woman, I am Invincible, I am Tired" -- printed message on a t-shirt for sale in Black Mountain, NC
"As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, people should be judged by the content of their character, not by their ability to impress each other with the physical dominance that comes with winning a fight...." -- Don't Stereotype Me, by Abigail Wendell in The Urban News--Gateway to the Multicultural Community, October 2007, Asheville NC
".... our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.... It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -- The Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863
Regional note: When the State of Tennessee seceded in 1861, East Tennessee remained a stronghold of Union sentiment. The Emancipator (one year earlier called the Manumission Intelligencer), the first abolishonist periodical in the nation, was published monthly from Jonesborough by Elihu Embree beginning in 1820.Graphic: War Monster by John Charles, Kingsport TN, 6x12, mixed media (sold)
ACR Publisher: Jeannette Harris, admin@acountryrag.org
Literary Editor: Gwendoline Fortune, submissions@acountryrag.org or gyfort@earthlink.net
Contributing Editor: Carolyn Moore, carolynmoore@charter.net
"....they [men] are...creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and kill him." -- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, quoted in The Enemy Outside, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory, edited by Judith Kegan GardinerUnless noted otherwise, the site's text and graphics are copyrighted to A Country Rag, Inc. and/or Jeannette Harris. Individual prose, poetry and graphics are copyrighted to the artists credited. All rights reserved.
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"Like recent feminists, she [the protagonist of The Awakening by Kate Chopin] implicitly rejects the choice of either a conventional sexual life in a marriage that allows no time to express her creativity, or the solitary spinsterhood of a woman who is devoted to her art or career. Like men, she wants both." -- Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest by Carol P. Christ in Spiritual Liberation, Social Defeat
Graphic: Technology
"Let's mine the great depths of the imagination, which is a God-given gift, rather than depend on some poor, innocent soul to provide fodder." -- Jan Karon, quote in WNC Magazine, Mountain Living in Western North Carolina, November/December 2007, Asheville, NC.
A Country Rag is accessible through Web addresses: http://www.acountryrag.org and a mirror site at http://www.oocities.org/countryrag (http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/1293).
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