Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
Roadside Memorials in the US South In 2003, I began an odyssey through several states photographing makeshift memorials to departed loved ones found alongside the highways of the Southeast. In...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Richardson stone used in Peter N. Moore's World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), 39, illustrates the problem....
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Indian Country outside the Creek Nation, among Lakota people in South Dakota, for example; as an advocate for Native Hawaiian prisoners incarcerated in Oklahoma and Arizona; as an interim pastor...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
John McWilliams, Hampton Plantation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 1973. In the early 1970s, John was teaching photography at Georgia State University when we discovered McClellanville through Robert Frank’s photograph “Barber shop...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Commemorative Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–2010," Journal of Southern History LXXVIII, no. 3 (August 2012): 639–684. The market is a reminder that...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...(Lowell Mason's brother, Timothy, moved to Cincinnati (Bealle, 29)), it put down firm roots in regions of the South. As immigrants moved southward from Pennsylvania into Virginia and the Carolinas,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
Essay Map showing Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2012. In the late 1970s, I spent a year on the West Coast, and it was as close as I ever got to counterculture....
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Work of Looking." Figure 6 (Top): Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, September 29, 2014. http://lookingatappalachia.org/south-carolina#/id/i9215392. Figure 7 (Middle): Brothers Ralph and Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, November 4,...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...July 8, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable,...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South....