Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...had established "Avon Indian Farm" near the creek. In Sheriff Odum's telling, the mummified Indian was discovered "stretched out under a big old tree."1Odum's account is quoted in a laudatory...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...and institutions emerged wherever Black people lived. Before the end of the Civil War, Union soldiers defeating Confederate soldiers attracted emancipated Black people, who settled near Union encampments. In 1865,...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...the dancers in A Charlie Brown Christmas. The artwork for their albums, too, echoed this childish aesthetic. A drawing of band members as children—Lynda Stipe is called Missy here—comprises the...
Georgia Postcard
...safe when you're not. IIII. Green How you would love the pale green trees, the sheer chartreuse light, the swallowing kudzu, the mammoth dogwoods, the Christmas tree farm. Published...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...have never seen before or since. Yellow boys squire me to glittering clubs where I am the coal in the Christmas stocking. Curious, curious yellow me. I can't tell who...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...seen recently. The first-person viewing stage is nearly fifteen square feet and includes three seven foot high screens. The immersive visual effect comes from standing in a rotating 360 degree...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007