Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...intimacy in which viewers are invited to sit alongside. It is an image used in the film's promotion: Mildred sits in Richard's lap, holding his head close to her chest....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Monkey, began to operate the unused sharecropper house as a lounge. (Enlarged Map: Poor Monkey's and Merigold) The building is made of unpainted cypress planks, roofed with corrugated galvanized steel...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...threat to use his pistol on anyone who approached; the Decatur courthouse where Judge James E. Horton made his crucial ruling reversing the verdict against Haywood Patterson (ending any hope...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...setting of her fiction not only because it is familiar, but also because she finds a means of entering, through its peculiar apertures, an altogether different metaphysical locus. For this...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...served by improved roads, was the "gateway to Florida" (10, 58), and provides a useful window into larger debates about centralization, planning, funding, and labor. Dixie Highway's tendency to use...
Writing Appalachia
...Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee (2006). In 1858, (West) Virginia artist and author David Hunter Strother confirmed this blend of backwoods and urbane, noting that in East Tennessee...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...from some of the local poor, whose wait for housing and social services was extended because the evacuees received priority. In part because they recognized that the federal government was...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of the Georgia House of Representatives would write that the flag, "is becoming to be [sic] the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. The...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...reason they built the cabin there was because the water is always 70 or 72 degrees. This is right on the creek by a spring, and the house stayed cool...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Points/Candler Park patronized Charis because, as one respondent put it, "it was in the neighborhood, and women ran it."2Jane and Anne [pseud.], interviewed by Saralyn Chesnut, tape recording, Atlanta, GA,...