Glynn Young on Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer

I didn't have Winters as a professor, but I remember the name. I did have William Cooper with his booming Southern accent for American history (two semesters) and Mark Carlton for Louisiana history. I tried to get into T. Harry Williams' seminar on the Civil War, but it was always open first to history majors. Carlton was something else; I took the course in 1971 when Bennett Johnston ("Mr Clean of the North") and Edwin Edwards ("Mr. Clean of the South") were the two favorites in a crowded field for governor. A true Louisiana character - a man named Puggy Moity - was in that group. His 9:30 a.m. Sunday TV broadcast (Baton Rouge channel, Channel 2 I think) was the single most popular TV program in the region. Carlton would offer his own commentary in class on Monday morning, and it would start with "And then there's Puggy Moity." No one could quite believe that Moity was allowed to get away with what he said about the other candidates, and not a single candidate ever sued him (I think he was or had been a sheriff in Livingston Parish). And I do exactly what you're doing -- collecting old books on particular subjects, replacing paperbacks, and rereading them cover to cover. I retrieved one package from the mailbox and started reading it standing in the garage.