Foote on Hurricanes
Hurricane season, with all its potential destruction, is upon us. When we refer to someone in the workplace blowing through like a hurricane, that’s not a compliment. Shelby Foote, southern writer and Civil War historian (The Civil War: A Narrative) and prominent analyst in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary The Civil War, was a person of wit and wisdom. He knew that hurricanes were to be avoided:
“I ran into the Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.”







