Outdoors: On being Southern

Does anyone remember the old Motel 6 commercials with Tom Bodett? His famous tagline was, “We’ll leave the light on for ya!” Now he was a Yankee, but a country Yankee, apparently. That’s one of the sayings I remember my grandparents and the older people of my childhood saying often. If they knew you would be traveling late, they would say “We’ll leave the light on.” It s...

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