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

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...that trademark blister on Poydras Street that Saints fans call the Superdome. Canal Street has seen its shopping emporiums shut down or decamp for the suburbs, while several Royal Street...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...