Neal Wooten was born and bred on Sand Mountain in the town of Blake, Alabama and has been writing articles from a uniquely Southern perspective for newspapers, magazines, and the Huffington Post for the last 15 years. Drawing upon his time from raising hogs, fishing, school, farming, sports, and just being a kid growing up in the South, Corn Born & Corn Bread: A Collection of Southern Essays puts together 73 articles of Neal's vivid memory of the South of yesteryear. He might have lived all over, but as Neal says, "You can take the boy from the mountain, but not the mountain from the boy."