The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...partner in the movie is, fittingly, one of her own former students, a vet of the War on Terror who is ill-equipped to deal with Olivia's defiant children, in spite...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about all immigrants in Florida. We were just doing one town." I said, "If somebody had died in that story or if those police officers who came in had actually...
"Aint that Something?"
...Gipe captures its looming presence in an illustration of the word in all capital letters; Dawn says, "It was the first time I ever heard the word." (302). Prescription pill...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...sturdy.” “But,” as Hood reminds us, “it’s a small town and word gets around.” Mike Cooley’s “Pulaski, Tennessee” is another song/story set in another small town in the Tennessee Valley....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...rosy story is important because a strong, inclusive and self-reflective, environmental movement is more important now than ever. Writing movement history is always political, especially when the social movements remain...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his 1852 visit that "Mammoth Cave is as large as a county, but having another county on top of it, it is not represented, I believe, in the Kentucky Legislature....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...shrouded in smog looms over it. It's a busted up Emerald City, desaturated and toxic, an unreal city in an industrialized Oz. HBO has three shows set in Louisiana: Treme,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About the Author Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California....
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...