Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Stand at The Beverly Laurel Motel" in Los Angeles, California. Her work is part of several university art curriculums in Milan, Italy and Oxford, Mississppi. Erin is currently living in...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...legal presumptions, and other issues, this conflict over the definition and causation of black lung is intensely political: it involves the ideological content of medicine's view of disease, including the...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...operates: no drugs, no violence, no disrespect. The Poor Monkey crowd is made up almost entirely of local regulars, and is usually integrated. It is not uncommon to meet an...
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...
"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...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...When David Wharton asked if I would be interested in photographing the Mississippi Coast with him and Bruce West on the one year anniversary of Katrina's landfall, I agreed, not...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Independent Weekly vol. 27, no.3, January 20–27, 2010. Featuring Bob Geary's "Rich kid, poor kid: Diversity takes a backseat in Wake schools." Ultimately, in the 2009 election that is the...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Challenge to Us All to Continue Our Quest and Pursuit of Justice. Information Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching is the last unsolved mass lynching in US History! $35,000 Reward for info...