Fellow Flatlander: Rebecca Durden Seawright






















In honor of her moving away from the Delta to teach in Holly Springs, Miss., home of Shepard Smith and Graceland Too, we are featuring Co-Editor R.D. Seawright as this week's Fellow Flatlander. Since she will no longer be a flatlander at the end of the summer, it is only fitting that we pay tribute to her while she is still here. Pictured above, R.D. strikes a glamorous pose with menthol in hand.

Rebecca Durden "R.D." Seawright was born on Superbowl Sunday, January 24, 1982 to Joe and Rebecca Seawright of Greenwood, Miss. She considers her parents "canonized saints of the highest caliber" and calls her niece, Lillie Belle, her "sassy little shadow whom I adore with every fiber of my being." This fall, R.D. will be teaching English and Theatre Appreciation at Marshall Academy in Holly Springs, Miss. R.D. has lived in Greenwood all her born days, except for summers and during her college years.

A 2000 graduate of Pillow Academy, R.D. attended Delta State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in French in 2003. While at Delta State, R.D. enjoyed her membership in Alpha Psi Omega Theatre Fraternity and Lambda Iota Tau Literary Society. For fun, R.D. enjoys stage acting and recently graced the stages of the Greenwood Little Theatre as "Stella" in Tennessee Williams' drama A Streetcar Named Desire. As Co-Editor of The Delta Dirt, R.D. loves to take incriminating pictures of the townsfolk and post them for the world to see.

More about Rebecca Durden:

1. First car: A ’91 Chevy Blazer fondly remembered as “Black Beauty.”
2. Favorite late night food: Krystal Chiks (or if I’m in Memphis with Thomas at 4 in the morning it would definitely be Denny’s, for their most exquisitely delectable of culinary creations, “The Lumberjack Slam”).
3. Who cuts your hair: I usually let my friend, Sara Stovall, cut my hair. For she, like Frenchie in Grease, has always harbored a lifelong dream of attending beauty school (and it saves me thirty bucks).
4. The perfect pet: The tail-end of a pretty peacock and the head of a pot-bellied pig. I would name her “Creole Claudy.”
5. Favorite album: I’m enjoying a Thirties and Forties Jazz phase at the moment. I recently made a CD of Ella, Etta, and Billie that completely rocks my casbah.
6. Your favorite roommate: Lacy Lee Walker, who hails from Greenville, was my first college roommate and is a dear friend to this day.
7. Favorite alcoholic beverage: That’s like asking a loving, fair, and impartial mother to name her favorite child. As far as beers go, I like Coors Light, Bud Heavy, and Blue Moon. I like vodka tonics with two limes. When I’m feeling girly I go gah-gah for Bellini’s, Mimosa’s, and Amaretto Sour’s. If it’s been a really hard day I’ll sip some Jack Daniel’s and Diet. And Southern Comfort is rather fabulous.
8. Unkept New Year’s resolutions: To quit drinking. To quit smoking. To lose weight. To win the Nobel Prize for literature. And to become a glamorous stage actress with an endless number of gentleman callers.
9. Most recent sport played competitively: Soccer, my junior year in high school
10. Name of your alter-ego: Stella for Star DuBois Kowalski
11. Most embarrassing nickname: “Luscious R.D.-Cups” (A moniker I inherited during Lexann Pate’s 21st birthday extravaganza to The Big Easy via Amtrak. Contact me if you desire more details).
12. Type of most recent surgery: A dreaded conization of my dang cervix
13. Ideal honeymoon location: New Orleans
14. ACT/SAT Score: 29
15. Favorite Halloween costume: Inspired by Liz Taylor, I was Cleopatra one year. I found this black wig I had worn as a Chinese prostitute in a play called The Good Person of Setzuan. I even found, in Mama’s box of trinkets, some Egyptian-flavored costume jewelry that had belonged to my maternal grandmother. I put this old white bed-sheet on and cinched it up with a tacky gold braided belt and prayed to Jude, patron saint of lost causes, that my clumsily-tied shoulder knot wouldn’t come undone, exposing my entire left breast to the good folks of Bolivar County that All Hollow’s Eve.

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