The Southern Gentleman

11/28/2025

Mark your calendars for Friday, November 28!

10/16/2025

Update: Our hours will be modified over the next 10 days due to the State Fair and related traffic in the area.

The NC State Fair starts tomorrow and so we have listed our adjusted store hours. The best way to get to us is from Western Blvd. to Hillsborough Street. Our Shade Shop Manager and our jewelry dealer will be on vacation all next week.

05/01/2025

Quick Update: I’ve Moved … sort of.

The Southern Gentleman is now exclusively at Pigfish Lane Antiques in Raleigh. And, of course, you can also shop online via the website.

I’m super happy to have just celebrated the one year anniversary of The Southern Gentleman! It’s been a big learning experience and a lot of fun so far.

Thank you to all of my customers and supporters! I appreciate you more than you know.

I’m excited about year two, and I’ve got some other changes in the works. In addition to consolidating the two locations, I’ve also been working on making some updates to inventory, product offerings, and services.

Stay tuned for more details!

02/07/2025

02/01/2025

01/18/2025

Ernest Hemingway’s 7 Tips for Writing:
1: To get started, write one true sentence.
“Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.’”
2: Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck.”
3: Never think about the story when you’re not working.
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
4: When it’s time to work again, always start by reading what you’ve written so far.
“When it gets so long that you can’t do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start.”
5: Don’t describe an emotion—make it.
“In writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element of timeliness which gives a certain emotion to any account of something that has happened on that day; but the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always, was beyond me...”
6: Use a pencil.
“If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the proof.”
7: Be Brief.
“It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.”

01/03/2025

Happy New Year! Our booth in Selma will be closed Monday through Thursday next week for a winter reset.

Stop by this weekend to pick up anything you’ve had your eye on. Come back the following weekend to see what’s new!

Our hours in Raleigh at Pigfish Lane Antiques & Interiors will be normal, but updates and new items on the way there as well!

12/17/2024

The store is filled with lots of great gifts and home decor - vintage, antique, retro, and new!

11/30/2024

IT’S SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY!!

Yesterday was for the Big Box stores and today is for us little guys! We line the streets of your cute downtowns, we sponsor your little leagues & donate gift cards to your company raffles. We might be your neighbors, but always your friends, and possibly even your family. We’re the little guys who appreciate and feel every purchase when it happens. We often live in and support our communities in great ways and we’re always thinking outside the box to be creative and bring others to our perfectly imperfect small towns. We are the small businesses across America who fight everyday to stay in business, and we want to celebrate today with you!

Join us today from 11am-6pm for various discounts throughout the shop.
(Look for signs from participating vendors) and come in and enjoy Birthday cake with us at 3pm as we celebrate our 4 year Anniversay of The Southern Bostonian! Can you believe it’s already been 4 years?! Time flys when you’re having fun!


RKS Art Studios
Starline Studio at The Southern Bostonian
Sparrow and Finch Vintage
Down Emmarie Lane
the glossy moss
Thrifty Chick
Sweet Vidalia Vintage
The Southern Gentleman
Vintage Modish
Agape Boutique
Vintage Vivian
The Story Keeper BookStore

11/30/2024

Come by The Southern Gentleman at Pigfish Lane Antiques & Interiors on Sunday to Sip and Shop! Hope to see you there!

is hosting their fabulous Sip & Shop this Sunday, December 1st 2:00-4:30pm. Join us for mimosas and merry-making!