by Gary Fearon
Down here in the South, most students have just wrapped up their school year and begun their summer vacation. Up North, many kids are still hitting the books, and will continue to well into June. Officially, the calendar says the first day of Summer is June 20th. But the days have been hot and summery enough lately that many Southerners consider Memorial Day Weekend the start of the sunny solstice.
"Summertime and the livin' is easy," said George and Ira Gershwin (actually, it was DuBose Heyward, the author of Porgy, the novel on which Porgy
and Bess was based). Regardless of whether your
daddy's rich and your mama's good lookin', there are plenty of folks...
