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Monday, October 26, 2020

Respectability and the Market Revolution

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  Troy D. Smith As I look at my blog I see I have not posted here since January of this year (2020)... a sad poem about rain, which was an a...
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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Raindrops

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RAINDROPS Can raindrops wash away the sin    The tracks of places you have been    The tears of people that you knew    The trace of f...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

Mount Moriah

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[ Recent events have reminded me of a poem I wrote almost exactly thirty years ago...} Note- Mount Moriah was the site where Abraham was to...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

How Many Books Have You Written?

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"How many books have you written?" That's a question I get a lot, and my answer is usually something like "um, I'm ...
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Saturday, June 1, 2019

Southern Culture, Southern Honor, Southern Fatalism

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Troy D. Smith Author's note: I have not posted anything on this blog in over a year... because last year was unbelievably busy fo...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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