The Forgotten Stories of Southern Journalism

The Forgotten Stories of Southern Journalism

BATON ROUGE, La. — “Will these people really want to hear about something a seventy-year-old woman wrote that long ago?” Jeanette Calametti asks that question the way I expect her to—uncertain, even after all this time. She sifts through a stack of newspaper clippings, their edges slightly yellowed but still perfectly preserved, as if they’d just hit the newsstands in Mobile, Ala. She leans forward, pulling more articles from the leather portfol…