Old-Fashioned Words

Kathryn Tucker Windham begins this montage of stories with the sounds of summer and ends with a joyful Christmas memory. The mixture of tales from the mouth-watering description of good Southern food to the story of a governor more familiar with Tom Sawyer than Tom Jefferson comes together to evoke the image of a happy childhood. The title selection shows us how saying things just a little differently can make life more interesting, even when what's different is a little behind the times. Ms. Windham's ....