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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

When the Border Crossed Me

Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...

Besieged Terrain

...Blue Ridge is the most easterly part of the range, with mountains that average three thousand feet in elevation, but many can exceed six thousand feet. Clingman's Dome in the...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...1721 census of Cherokee towns included "Elojay, Little" but did not specify a location.5Varnod, 62. In 1725 British trade emissary Colonel George Chicken stayed overnight in "Elejoy"about two miles from...

Runaway

...alone. I made it To Fairfield Street before the headlights of Daddy's pickup caught me In mid-blur. But I left my lover better: I knifed a tire before I went...