Posts Tagged ‘Alabama’
1. Please tell us your full name and state and provide a sentence describing who you are for our readers:
Anna Shields, native Alabaman and director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Honors College.
2. What makes your state distinct?
SHIELDS: Alabama is defined by: its hot humid summers, beautiful rivers and lakes, football, and a church every half-mile.
3. If your state were a person, describe its, his, or her personality:
SHIELDS: If Alabama were a person, he’d be a middle-aged “bidnessman,” gunrack optional on his white Ford-F150, which he drives to his cabin on the lake. He is suspicious of the rest of the world, never goes farther than Atlanta (which he hates when he does have to go there, as do all right-thinking people), and happy to root for his football team (Auburn or Alabama), vote Republican, do his work, and go to church.
4. What’s the funniest thing about your state
SHIELDS: Ricky Bragg, the writer. Funny and poignant at the same time.
