Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Christian, a most eminent minister of Jesus Christ. He left a disconsolate widow, but no children. His death was something remarkable. He was of a strong and robust make, and...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...day, many singings are held in Primitive Baptist churches, though Methodist and Missionary Baptist churches are frequently used. In addition to the larger conventions, which persist in a slightly altered...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...big break most writers dream about. Brian Stansberry, Visitors stand next to a 400-year-old tree at the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in Graham County, North Carolina, October 2010. That fall,...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...gulls overhead trailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare— all the way to Ship Island. What we see first is the fort, its roof of grass a lee— half reminder of the...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...the last three decades. Since the Census Bureau started keeping count, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina have had the nation's largest rates of children near...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Freedmantown. Studio D, which Frank Campagna had opened in his art studio around 1982 pretty far east on Main Street (just before the old Deep Ellum neighborhood reached Fair Park),...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...device to contrast the industrialized Northeast with what he wanted to view as a pastoral, even Edenic, South, Eliot was in truth a Missourian, that most existentially challenging of all...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...network was in constant touch about who would be evacuating to where and coming to stay with whom. Hurricane Ivan was the storm that affected me the most. After Ivan...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...School in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Committed to preserving white supremacy at all costs, the angry mob hurled racist insults, glass bottles, and rocks toward the bus. Within a matter...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...http://www.wral.com/most-moral-monday-arrestees-from-north-carolina/12540006/. As the legislative session came to a close, however, the movement moved from Raleigh to other cities and showed no sign of weakening. On August fifth, six thousand demonstrators...