Jo Ivester remembers what segregation looked like in the American South — she was a member of the only white family in an all-black Mississippi town. In her new book “Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South,” Ivester describes the shock of transplanting from the Boston suburbs to Mount Bayou, Mississippi – one of the poorest, most segregated communities in America.

After spending $10 million in state funds and 63,000 steroid-tested high school students, Texas is tired of spending money on what could be a state-sponsored fiasco.

Loving Texas is one thing. Teaching your children to do the same when they no longer live here is something else altogether. Jake Silverstein left his post as editor of Texas Monthly to head up a little outfit called The New York Times Magazine - a tough job but someone’s gotta do it. But back when he was at the helm of Texas Monthly, he was responsible for one of its most popular issues: It featured babies in cowboy boots under a banner asking, “How Do You Raise a Texan?”

Rockey Carter is like any other Princeton resident—he and his wife Barbara love to kick back on the lawn chairs of their white-washed front porch and enjoy the peace and harmony of small town life. He houses a blended family of seven children with three at Princeton High, one in college and the rest coming out of Harper Elementary. But just a few weeks ago amidst the clamor of noise-makers and hand-clapping, Rockey took a bow onstage as director of his synagogue’s annual play based on the story of Biblical Esther—“Purim,” as the Jewish holiday is called. He plans to direct an upcoming production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” this fall.

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