Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...we'd get up on the chair and play it. Everyone in my family could play—we had five boys and four girls. We could play fiddles too.' When he got up...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Twenty-one children for two couples may seem extraordinary and could possibly feed into some of the prevailing stereotypes that portrayed primitive "Orientals" engaging in...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...and prayers for justice. 1 p.m. - Pre-Reenactment rally. Invited guest speakers will include national and local Civil/Human Rights activists, clergy and political leaders. Narrator, Mr. Robert Howard, Walton County...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...up and out behind him. He fell slowly onto the small of his back. His legs flew straight up and bounced to the pavement. He writhed as blood poured from...
Congregation
...let go: a pile of photographs— fused and peeling—water stains blurring the handwritten names of people she can't recall; a drawer crowded with funeral programs and church fans, rubber bands...
The Liminal Site
...Vulcan statue. In 1924, when America's leading landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers, put together their proposal A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham, they recommended this area be part...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...There were thematic and regional volumes, too, such as The Oregon Trail. Produced by an agency of the WPA called the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), the guides were widely praised....
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...appliquéd cotton, with cording. 82"x18". Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Purchase, with funds from McCravey Fund, 2013.014. Photograph © 2014 Gil Ford Photography. Detail photograph by Dave Dawson Photography. On...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...is at fault, he will be dismissed from his duties, and a preacher from another church presides until this place can be filled. Sometimes a preacher’s position cannot be filled...