"Alabama is more than one of the States. It is another country. The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California. Alabama is a land with a spell on it — not a good spell always. It is as often "conjured" as enchanted."
— Carl Carmer

January 1, 1970

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"Alabama: Material for a Dramatist's Note-Book", in Theatre Arts Monthly, vol. 14, no. 12 (December 1930) p. 1022. Re-used in Stars Fell on Alabama (New York: The Literary Guild, 1934) foreword, p. xiv