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...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Washington Evening Star writer to later reminisce that opossum suppers were "great vote-getters in the south."69"'Possum for President in Southern Style," Evening Star (Washington, DC), Dec. 22, 1907, 3, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1907-12-22/ed-1/seq-51/....
Darkly
for Dave Smith The moss never falls. However gray, it hangs like shirts left to weather and rag over the road and the dead-end rail and in all the branches...
The Chimney
...before he hefted another slab of shale, another fractured gypsum brick, so after the pitched roof falls, after the shingles and cherry rafters crack and burn in someone else's fire,...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...materials a geographic coordinate. And the website offers suggestions for use in K-12 classrooms. Robert E. Howe, #7, Yellowstone Falls and Headwaters of the East Fork of the Pigeon River,...
"Aint that Something?"
...cuts school. "I was a freak, soft and four-eyed," Dawn describes herself (70). Trampoline celebrates weirdness and difference. Dawn falls for dorky Willett Bilson—a chubby guy with a drooling problem,...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...is a very great loss to the part of the country where he lived. He was a burning and a shining light, a star of the first magnitude, a great...
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....