Carroll Dale Short I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama

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After Dale Short moved away (reluctantly) from his hometown of Shanghi [sic] in Walker County, Alabama, he wrote home every weekby means of a newspaper column in The Daily Mountain Eagle, where he held his first writing job in the late 1960s. The columnsa homesick country boys reflections on the comforts, conflicts, and absurdities of living in the modern worldhave become a consistent favorite of Walker County readers, and have been honored multiple times by the Alabama Press Association and Alabama Media Professionals as the outstanding newspaper column in the state. They are collected here in Shorts book I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama, along with a new introduction by the author.