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Let me begin by saying that there are two possible effects facilitated by urban redevelopment:  one helps the neighborhood and one hurts the neighborhood.  By definition, gentrification is one of those “good intentions” types of events.  What happens, generally speaking, is that a group of citizens seizes a deteriorating neighborhood, buys its houses, fixes them up, and either resells them to the young up and comers of the city or inhabits them, settles into the community, and opens businesses in the neighborhood’s once ill-used commercial space. 
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Whatever beliefs you may have, I'll bet you've heard the story of Noah and the Ark.  You know,  God talks to Noah and says, "Hey I'm really mad at mankind so I'm going to make it rain for 40 days and nights. But Noah, you're all right...I like you a lot, so...build an ark and put you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives on it, and that'll make you responsible for carrying on the human race. Oh and while you're at it, put a male and female of every animal species on that ark, close it up and wait for rain."
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Many of us speak with some version of the Southern Accent. Some of us aren’t aware of it, some of us worked diligently to suppress it, and some of us aren’t even from the South originally, yet find ourselves saying “g'bah” instead of “goodbye.”  Everyone who lives or has ever lived in the Southeastern United States understands that the Southern dialect is unmistakable.   Read more...

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There was a time—and these were great and glorious days—when country music teemed with Hanks.  Consider the following dialogue from Charles Portis’ 1966 novel Norwood:

    “I’m trying to get into show business myself.  Hillbilly music.  You probably don’t like it.”
    “On the contrary, I do.  Some of it.  Hank what’s his name--?”
    “Hank Williams?”
    “No.”
    “Hank Thompson?”
   
    “No.”
    “Hank Locklin?”
    “No.”
    “Hank Snow?” Read more...