Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...is a very great loss to the part of the country where he lived. He was a burning and a shining light, a star of the first magnitude, a great...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Los Angeles. © Richard Misrach. For me, the petrochemical culture of southeastern Louisiana is epitomized by the pipe rack, one of which photographer Richard Misrach captures in plate 23 of...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...the play. I also worked with Joan Scheckel, a screenwriting, acting, and directing coach who holds workshops and seminars in Los Angeles. She talks about the thought as a nugget,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...for charity, and exhibits including the "Women in Photography 20th Anniversary Tea Time Exhibit," "photo l.a. 2002" and "Photo Impact" in Los Angeles, and a two-woman exhibit at the Loft...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Doug Sahm) with the exception being Marcia Ball, who were already living in Texas or had gravitated to Austin's heterogeneous soundscape from New York, Los Angeles, or Nashville. Armadillo World Headquarters,...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...