Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...there's the newer mobile home, trailer, against the falling-down row of old camp houses with the mountain in the background. That picture is useful in showing the difference. Aging coal...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
Review In 2001, lifelong Anniston, Alabama, resident Ruth Mims was called to testify in a lawsuit against the multinational corporation Monsanto. Monsanto had owned and operated a chemical manufacturing facility...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...stamp collecting as well as a casual mention of marijuana smoking, see "Just What Is Dishonesty," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), July 1, 1923, sec. One-B; "Literature—and Less—Comments on the Books of...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...to this essay. About the Authors A native son of Franklin County, Virginia, author and filmmaker Charles D. Thompson, Jr. is the curriculum and education director at the Center for...
The Carolina Piedmont
...the Dukes emerged." Stirred by the backwoods democracy of camp-meeting revivalism in the early nineteenth century, the region's evangelical fervor soon turned to the growth and maintenance of congregations and...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...dripped with sweat and their heads spun. Occasionally, at midnight, a small drama troupe would perform an original play up and down the aisles of the twenty-four-hour Kroger. Film buffs...
Whiskey and Geography
...posted online without the written permission of the copyright holder. About the Author A native son of Franklin County, Virginia, author and filmmaker Charles D. Thompson, Jr. is the curriculum...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...bibs, bibles. Sunday dinner. Roadside eats. Potato logs on a hot tray under a heat lamp. Lessons. Teachers. Strong women—mothers and daughters, activists and administrators—who hold it all together. It...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...say. Jim Bunkley: He, he'd play guitar in— Mitchell: —how come you think it is— Jim Bunkley: films too. Mitchell: How come you think it is that all of y’all...