Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...travel. Good Roads activists began to lobby for a federally-funded highway system, and, after 1914, planning for the Dixie Highway commenced. The idea for the highway, Ingram notes, came from...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...intense and intentional way than the Story Book on Alabama. 1976: No Turns Although the 1972 Nuntius article gives the impression that residents played a minor role—at most complaining to...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...that took him away from the helm of the News and Observer. Either way, he quickly embraced the idea of writing a book. How that book changed from a "prose...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...And I was surprised, too, by how the book has been received. It's not an easy book in a lot of ways. The sensibility and style are idiosyncratic, I think....
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Both Sides of the Border,” in The Global Activist's Manual: Local Ways to Change the World , ed. Mike Prokosch and Laura Raymond, (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002),...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Memphis is positioned at a strategic interstate crossroads in the middle of the United States, midway between Monterrey, Mexico, and Toronto, Canada. A new interstate highway, I-69, the NAFTA superhighway...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...by hearing her mother, Carrie Hickox Conner, who grew up in the Okefenokee south of Waycross, Georgia.22Delorese Conner Lee, phone interview by Laurie Kay Sommers, 8 July 2009. When Delorese...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...sense of pathos and security in a troubled world. But what I don't like is the way that Reed creates this affect by figuratively sacrificing McLemore to a worn narrative...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (New York: Basic Books, 1992). The reinvention of the drive-in theater as an imagined space of a supposedly more moral,...