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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...

Huntsville, Alabama images

...Army. It claims to be the world's largest space attraction. It also houses the graves of Able and Baker, monkeys who flew on a 1959 Jupiter test flight. Published: 28...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...

"Aint that Something?"

...of cousins and "outlaw" uncles and family friends with wonderful names, by the way: Crater, Decent, Pickle, Cinderella, Big Jan. Dawn rarely sees her flighty mother who started "grieving out...

The Cobb County Braves

...has noted, residents of Cobb County, an epicenter of suburbanization and white flight in the Metro-Atlanta region, have long opposed government spending on public transportation. In a press conference and...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Congregation

...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...