Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...prison in the state each year, the transition is less certain. Some will move into the only re-entry facility owned and operated by the state (which can only accommodate four...
Monkey Puzzle
Video Monkey Puzzle, 2008....
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...Arkansas, and Branson, Missouri. Ninety-six percent white, the county is demographically similar to northern Arkansas and southern Missouri counties, home to a declining population predominantly employed in farming. Searcy's population...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...small town of Middendorf, twelve miles north of Hartsville. Born to a working-class family, Gainey picked cotton at an early age with his brothers, sister, and cousins. Through relatives and...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...how casually and frequently Warren practices his violence. He quickly kills all of the helpless kittens. Guthrie vividly describes the scene: He picked the second kitten up in the grip...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...(New York: Random House, 2000). "It is wondrous and hardly explicable to many," wrote Bond and Wilson, "how James Weldon Johnson could have written such spiritually enriching lyrics in 1900...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Wild Planet, the group finally released Mesopotamia in early 1982, a David Byrne–produced recording that ended up being an EP because the band simply did not have enough new material....
Roadside Architecture
...photographs that follow are of portions of the humanly-made physical landscape in Mississippi and other parts of the deep South. More specifically, they focus on buildings in rural or, occasionally,...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...