I was a kid. Five or six, maybe. I heard the Grand Ole Opry come through a Philco radio that sat atop my father’s beer refrigerator. Keith Bilbrey was the broadcast voice, the music was perfect. I pointed to the refrigerator and told my father I wanted to do “that” one day. My father thought about this. He smiled, patted my shoulder, and in a precious moment that can only be called divine, he said, “Son, get me another beer.”The point is, dreams do come true. Because today, after all these years, I finally have my own beer refrigerator. , Sean Dietrich is a columnist, and novelist, known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Southern Living, The Tallahassee Democrat, Good Grit, South Magazine, Alabama Living, the Birmingham News, Thom Magazine, The Mobile Press Register, and he has authored seven books., Sean Dietrich, nicknamed "Sean of the South", is an American writer of books and newspaper columns. His focus is on the Southern United States and its people. [1] Dietrich was born in Missouri but after his father's suicide, when he was 12, [2] he moved with his family to Walton County, Florida, at age 14..