Becoming Southern
Recently, I was back in the United States — Texas, to be exact — and as any Texan will tell you, it is its own thing. While visiting my ailing father, we watched television together, and I came across a show on HGTV that caught my imagination. “Home Town” is set in Laurel, Mississippi, and stars the real-life married couple, the Napiers. The show’s concept is that they love the small Southern town they live in and go about fixing up old houses in the historic center. For someone such as myself, who has a love of architecture as well as a nostalgic soft spot for my own small town back in South Carolina, “Home Town” mashed the pleasure button in my cerebral cortex.