Little Ivy, North Carolina
...Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Burn piles at the site of the Little Ivy Church Cemetery looking East on US 19, Mars...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...York State Arts Council, he has served as visiting writer at Davidson College, Furman, Duke, Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he...
The Change
...burned in fires, at least to the third degree, when the raw, oozing, hives that covered ninety-eight percent of our bodies from the sprays ordered by the FDA and spread...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
Mandeville Thum, Mouth of the Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Introduction Geologically, Mammoth Cave is a network of underground caverns in central Kentucky believed to be the world's largest cave...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...city refer to them. When my family moved from New Orleans we settled in yet another hurricane-prone zone, eastern North Carolina. In the fall of 1999 I returned to Greenville,...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...border state, Kentucky had relatively high rates of racial violence, especially in western and central Kentucky, where African Americans were more highly concentrated than in the eastern counties, and where...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
Family Forestry Part 2: 3/3/02 Leavell revisits the site of the logging operation to explain how the loading deck is transformed to a feed plot Part 3: 3/15/05 Leavell returns...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...indulgent, generous even, in their embrace of someone at least proposing opera with a difference. In addition to historicizing Imoinda as art project, I cannot escape in the course of...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Lowcountry environment has devastating and lasting implications that stretch far beyond South Carolina. McCandless is quick to absorb and ponder the irony that the continent’s least healthy place swiftly became...