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Will Percy

A collection of 2 issues

Hate the River-Rat!

I gotta say, I'm really enjoying Will Percy's 1941 autobiography, Lanterns of the Levee. I'd heard of it for years but never bothered to buy it, much less read it. The prose is beautiful, if a bit ornate by today's standard, and

Southern Literary Figure Hated Confederate Statues

Will Percy (Walker's cousin and guardian) was no fan of the Confederate monuments, saying they're so pathetic, they don't even qualify to be ridiculous: [Y]ou will find in any Southern town a statue in memory of the Confederate dead, erected by the Daughters