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Front Porch "About 1917, it seems, just when H. L. Mencken was delivering `The Sahara of the Bozart,' his famously blistering dismissal of `Culture' in the South, somebody down home was buying Victor recordings of famed Italian opera stars Enrico Caruso and Amelita Galli-Curci." Enrico Caruso, examining a bust of himself in 1914, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. I never knew my mother's mother, a woman so distant from me that I think of her as "Miss Lucy" rather than "Grandmamma." But I do know a lot about her. She was a college graduate, when that was still a rare thing for a country girl, from one of our very early state schools for women. She agonized that her schoolteacher's job (and then her marriage) had utterly exiled her from childhood and college haunts to the North Carolina boondocks. She fiercely believed in books and lateVictorian "High Culture," and passed her creed intact to my mother. One of her legacies was a tiny phonograph collection that Mom saved when the old house had to go. About 1917, it seems, just when H. L. Mencken was delivering "The Sahara of the Bozart," his famously blistering dismissal of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

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Abstract

"About 1917, it seems, just when H. L. Mencken was delivering `The Sahara of the Bozart,' his famously blistering dismissal of `Culture' in the South, somebody down home was buying Victor recordings of famed Italian opera stars Enrico Caruso and Amelita Galli-Curci." Enrico Caruso, examining a bust of himself in 1914, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. I never knew my mother's mother, a woman so distant from me that I think of her as "Miss Lucy" rather than "Grandmamma." But I do know a lot about her. She was a college graduate, when that was still a rare thing for a country girl, from one of our very early state schools for women. She agonized that her schoolteacher's job (and then her marriage) had utterly exiled her from childhood and college haunts to the North Carolina boondocks. She fiercely believed in books and lateVictorian "High Culture," and passed her creed intact to my mother. One of her legacies was a tiny phonograph collection that Mom saved when the old house had to go. About 1917, it seems, just when H. L. Mencken was delivering "The Sahara of the Bozart," his famously blistering dismissal of

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 7, 2010

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