An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...evidence of the continuing existence of places away from the big place where, increasingly, we all live." And the reviewer for The North American Review remarked that Gautreaux "knows how...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...horse appear so lively. The narrator recalls in horror: The removal of the blanket disclosed a sore on Bullet's back-bone that seemed to have defied all medical skill. It measured...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...The impact of the X (which I assumed at the time to mark a structure for demolition) was powerful—were these homes and lives being X'd out? What about those who...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...continued to live in the area.4Newton County, Georgia—created December 24, 1821, from Henry, Jasper, and Walton Counties—was based in three ceded Native territories. Under the terms of the 1805 Treaty...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...They assert that on the Catholic side of the Haitian religious triangle of forces, the supernatural being who is believed to be most involved in the lives of believers and...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...almost walked into it because it was somewhat camouflaged by all of its neighboring palm trees, which were small. I imagined that's how it had lived so long, because it...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of the liver, create nausea or check the secretions, and it is less likely to occasion headache.15"Questions and Answers." In short, the Times-Picayune editorial tied marijuana to more familiar forms...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to expand its services. The brothers stayed on the cutting edge of new technology, adding Cirkut cameras to make panoramic photographs, aerial photography, and even motion pictures to their repertoire....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...citizens, and farmers restructured the power dynamics imposed on them by the white plantation class through the creation of an autonomous food economy in service to the needs, desire, and...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...price list. Dye transfer was the most expensive service offered. "I went straight up there to look," he remembered years later, "and everything I saw was commercial work, like pictures...