A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...previously "undeveloped" countryside. The latter turn out to be exceptional turncoats in an otherwise "loyal" and tight-knit rural community. Merthiolate-Colored Flags Sibley's locating Sweet Apple within the pastoral was as...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...spaces are commodified, exploited, and profaned. Closely appended to Loichot's unritual are the notions of "undead" and "unrest"; the liminal zone of (non)being they demarcate emphasizes the unritual's alienating, unsettling,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (2003): 403–417. It added fuel to many churches’ fire in maintaining and extending...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...connects the open ocean with areas behind the beach, allowing tidal waters to move in and out. Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) – Grass species that dominates lower parts of Georgia coastal...
The Change
...when the fields were like waves on a green ocean, and turned away, away from the change and corruption of big business on small farms of traditional agricultural people,...
Making History
...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...
Scarecrow
...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the big Alabama coal company where her husband had worked. She had worked at Health-Tex for a while, and then Lynne Fashions, they made fancy knits for Jonathan Logan, all...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Youngest Governor (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2008), 260, 303–306; William Warren Rogers et al., Alabama: A History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 547–548. Alabama's...