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

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...

The Liminal Site

...vertical feet down from the ridgeline and about 250 feet above downtown.1We now live in North Vancouver, British Columbia, but—since we moved during the Great Recession—we were unable to sell...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...hand time enough to rise slightly and meet his in a gesture of genuine fellowship…a clasping of hands in an expansive, mellow, hail-fellow mood." The poet Langston Hughes and the...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Festival in Athens, the Canadian Folk Festival, and the Alabama Folk Festival in Montgomery. These days Bryant plays mainly at home, with an occasional show in Columbus or Atlanta. To...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...