The Family Name Game

Noel Holston
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Up the hill from my house in Athens, Georgia, looking out on the highway winds west to Atlanta, there’s a brick, Colonial building that houses the Foy Horne law office. Foy and Horne are not partners. They’re one in the same. Foy is the attorney’s first name, Horne is his last. He’s a fine example of one of my favorite Southern traditions: family name first names.

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Noel Holston

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Mississippi native, prize-winning veteran of The Orlando Sentinel, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Newsday, stand-up storyteller, lives in Athens, Ga.

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