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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...The materials include interviews and photographs of quiltmakers along the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1978, and essays (see “Blue Ridge Quiltmaking in the Late Twentieth Century”) and photographs of the...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...industrial Louisiana in company patches on long-sleeved blue shirts: Diamond M, Gulfstream, Burlington Resources, W&T. I had seen Richard Misrach's ghostly photographs documenting images of my hometown: the salted cypress...

Frank Willis

...I dance in toe shoes to the Beach Boys, in shame. Growing up in Washington I rode D.C. Transit, knew Senators, believed the Washington Monument was God's pencil because my...

"Aint that Something?"

...include Silas House, Ann Pancake, Amy Greene, and David Joy, among many others. Appalachian authors of color including Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacinda Townsend, and Frank X Walker dispel pervasive...