Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...turmoil in relation to her intellectual and artistic pursuits. In her letter to Corse, she ponders the reasons for her despair and notes that she finds that such spells are...
Mississippi Delta
...They practiced small-scale farming and took part in a commercial hunting economy with whites after their arrival around the turn of the nineteenth century. The Delta became officially open to...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...that miracles sometimes occur.1The official name of the tribe located in present-day Oklahoma is the Muscogee Creek Nation. The word, in the language, for what Creek people speak is "Mvskoke," pronounced...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...and pleasures of life as they are uniquely presented by a particular site, and evolving ways to ensure long-term occupancy of that site."3Ibid., 217. I see now, thirty years later,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...body of his dead father out back, and lording over a spooky lair that was once, among other things, a fort for Confederate soldiers.18Carcosa, the lair, was shot at Fort...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...dozen university officials, and a cluster of Jesuit priests assembled inside Healy Hall for the liturgy and slowly processed into an ornate, wood-paneled auditorium on the third floor. After the...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
Family Forestry Part 2: 3/3/02 Leavell revisits the site of the logging operation to explain how the loading deck is transformed to a feed plot Part 3: 3/15/05 Leavell returns...