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

The Bulletin—May 8, 2013

...chewing (meaning they cannot bite you), instead sucking nutrients from plant sap. To attract female cicadas, the males of the species congregate in trees to form a deafening chorus that can...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.  Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...

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...

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...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...earlier that had taken his sight. He dazzled me with his will to learn to live sightless and a few mental tricks memorizing names and numbers. But what's emblazoned on...

Congregation

...chorus of marquees: God is not the author of fear; Without faith we is victims; Sooner or later everybody comes by here.   Tower This week they are painting the...

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...