The Mockingbird Next Door

Notes:

1. Scuppernongs
2. Sawmill gravy
3. Potato logs - large fried potato wedges
4. Truman Capote - 
1. "Has anyone put Truman out?" - Nelle's father
2. Shared old typewriter -- one would type, then turn it around for the other
3. "An indulllged child" -- Nelle
5. Nelle Harper Lee's middle name came from Dr. Harper, a pediatrician who saved the life of her sister Louise
6. Nelle's aunt's vocabulary:
1. Cyphaloon - weather so bad it might as well be a cyclone crossed with a typhoon
7. Journey Proud - a person who tosses and turns on the night before a trip
8. Pounding the Preacher - paying the preacher with a pound of chicken or vegetables when money was tight
9. Favorite books:
1. Alabama History:
1. Pickett's History of Alabama: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period (1851) - Albert J. Pickett
2. Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) - Carl Carmer
3. The Mind of the South (1929) - W. J. Cash
4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) - James Agee and Walker Evans
5. Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State (2003) - Harvey Jackson III
6. Alabama in the Twentieth Century (2004) - Wayne Flynt
2. Fiction:
1. Tongues of Flame (1986) - Mary Ward Brown
2. Chicken Dreaming Corn: A Novel (2004) - Roy Hoffman
3. Petrified Man - Eudora Welty