Visiting Maycomb County: an Australian reading Harper Lee in the Deep South

By Rob Ashton
Updated August 6 2015 - 10:13am, first published July 31 2015 - 8:24pm
Harper Lee lived with her sister Alice Lee in this home in Monroeville, Alabama.  Photo: The Washington Post
Harper Lee lived with her sister Alice Lee in this home in Monroeville, Alabama. Photo: The Washington Post

Recently, I spent two days in a world of syrup, stumphole whisky, spittoons, billfolds, cape jessamine bushes, a long switch-blade knife that saved the lives of a boy and a girl, molasses buckets, poundcake, sweating sidewalk crowds, Lane cakes loaded with shinny, a Confederate Army pistol, bird dogs, men smelling of pigpens, an innocent but doomed man named Tom Robinson, peach pickles, cotton sun-bonnets, Southern hospitality, a chiffarobe, and a rabid dog. In short, I spent a weekend in Maycomb County.

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