Her main reason for marriage, she says, was to get out of her childhood household and escape from a tyrannical father. My father, who I didn't really meet until I was twelve years old, was a local boy she had married at fifteen. My mom, Christine, gave birth to her only daughter, Gretchen Frances Wilson, when she was sixteen. If you think about it, the South really did rise again, and is still rising, in ways no one could have predicted.
The people there feel a part of the great traditional Southern culture that has now made huge inroads into every part of America-country music, stock car racing, pickup trucks, and Jack Daniel's whiskey. More importantly, the outlook is more Southern than Northern. The name of the Interstate is Highway "Farty," not Forty. The speech is Southern-people say "carn" for corn, "fark" for fork, and "arwl" for oil. The region is very close in distance to Southern strongholds like Kentucky and Tennessee, much closer than it is to Chicago and the upper Midwest. It's part of a rural society that looks inward to the lives of its neighbors and not outward to the life of the world.Īlthough Illinois fought for the North in the Civil War, the area of Illinois that I'm from feels a lot more like the South. A common saying is, no one comes to Pocahontas who doesn't already live there. Louis to Indianapolis and rarely stop and investigate the places or the people who live within a stone's throw of that highway. Travelers whiz by on Interstate 70 from St. I guess the four hundred people or so who live there don't need to stop that much. Pierron doesn't have a gas station or stoplight. Pocahontas doesn't even have a grocery store. Some of these towns are so small that their inhabitants just say they're from a particular county, like Bond County or Madison County. There are plenty of cornfields and dairy farms, interrupted by small town after small town with names like Pierron, Dudleyville, Greenville, Edwardsville, Millersburg, and Pocahontas. The horizon is broken by an occasional silo or water tower but otherwise is endless. The land is flat, as flat as Iowa or western Kansas. Louis on the west and the Indiana border on the east.
I grew up in the southern part of Illinois, a kind of no-man's-land between St. You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud. If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
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