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HISTORY. POLITICS. LIFE IN THE SOUTH.

RED GALLUSES

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Betty and Herman Talmadge standing among hanging hams in the Talmadge Hams smokehouse

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Talmadge Country-Cured Ham

The ham at the center of Betty’s hunt-breakfast menu.

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The greeting scene at Betty Talmadge’s hunt breakfast for Lucille Ball, reproduced in her cookbook.

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Lucille Ball came to breakfast

A hunt breakfast at Lovejoy, from Betty Talmadge’s cookbook.

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Mule Day, Calvary, Georgia: black-and-white illustration of mules, wagons and farm work

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Somebody has to judge the mules.

A few reasons to leave town this fall.

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