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Spring 1997
Back Porch
About Back Porch
Publisher
Grace B. Lebo Editor Grace B. Lebo
Account Execultive
Fannie V. Favre
Back Porch is a regional magazine that is published quarterly. We welcome correspondence including manuscripts and other matenal submitted for possible publication. Our mailing address is:
Back Porch
Post Office Box 3325
Gulfport MS 39505-3325
Telephone 601/832-0906
Letters will not be answered nor submissions acknowledged or returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope (an SASE).
Some back copies of Back Porch are available for $2, a 9”xl2” envelope and $1 postage.
For subscription and advertising information, please see page_____.
Back Porch buys original art produced for Back Porch as well as one-time rights to aD other material used. Al other rights belong to the originators and no part of any material used in Back Porch may be reproduced without permission of the owner.
Letters, Letters, Letters
Congratulations! Many people spend their entire lives without having the opportunity to follow a dream. Like you, I was away from Mississippi for a number of years and returned to follow a dream. It has been a wonderful experience. Success is measured by the effort, and anything else is a bonus. t.
Good luck.
Jack C. Kean III Starkville, MS
I’m renewing my subscription to Back Porch. I pass my copies on to friends, a questionable policy! Maybe I’ll stop after I hook them into subscribing.
I especially enjoyed the Union School piece by John McDonald. I could smell the chalk!
Dorothy Burge Carriere, MS
If you will look extra hard, you’ll find my check for ten whole dollars for a year’s subscription to Back Porch. Best I can tell, it has only one glaring weakness. One must wait forever for the next issue. And I’m so old that I don’t buy green bananas anymore. ‘Fraid they might’nt ripen in time for me to eat them!
As my Uncle Justin might say about the Fall copy I have, “I’ve got th’ whole tam ting mesmerized.” Good magazine!
Jerry W.T. Wilson Bossier City, FL P.S. If the check bounces, I’ll write you another just like it. Meantime, keep on a-keepin’ on.
My subscription to Back Porch has been a treat to myself over the past year, and I have truly enjoyed every issue. I wish you much joy as you accept the torch passed on by Fannie Favre and success in continuing her championship run in quality publishing!
Rosemary Aycock Lafayette, LA
Congratulations and best wishes oa assuming the editorship of Back Porch. I thoroughly enjoyed the Winter *96 issue. I have found that any pubbcatioa
that I can read cover to cover without finding a single “dud” is an oddity. Let me assure you that I have found Back Porch to be one such “dud-less” magazine.
Nothing would please me more than telling a tale of my own on your Back Porch. ... I notice that many of your authors reside in Mississippi and that you specify Back Porch to be a “regional magazine.” I am assuming with my submission that any Southern author is welcome.
Sharon Gates Asheville, NC
Congratulations on your acquisition of Back Porch f It was a pleasure to talk with you in December. I trust things are going extremely wefl with the magazine, and I look forward to the Spring issue. Please give my regards to Fannie and know that I wish yoa every success
Charfiae H McCord Cfaton, MS
Your magazine is w* to me, and I am happy to have iacmcred it. For Christmas I received a gsr certificate to one of our loai boal*ore&. and in looking around to see hom I would use it, came upon year aMfszae. the Winter 1996 issue h it ft refill md I will look forward to ittc eriiriot
Sylvia Gossett Auburn, AL
I have bcgB to be even more attentive to the sagazme racks in book stores than I used to be, as I look for po^ble phce; of publication. This is ■ow I iKudy encountered Back Porch. I iff aiy did not bother to look at the coaicau before buying it once I saw k was published since I have an hanednie interest in all things MiN^qppian. I was reared in southwest Alabama, went to college in Mississippi, md married a girl from Jackson. I am happy to say that I was quite pleased when I did get Back Porch home and read h.
Jofefc Rmnbley MoatgMcry. AL