The Change
...cart trailers pulled behind the orange Allis-Chalmers tractor with huge, round fenders and only a screwdriver and salt in the tool box, picked by primers so hot we would race...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...salt mackerel. The next morning my fever broke and the fish was all cooked. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...the story "Mrs. Yardley’s Quilting," the gentlemanly narrator asks Sut to explain a "muddy job" he has been talking about. Sut says he has been "helping tu salt ole Missis...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...philosophy, and ecocriticism of the Americas. The book brims with theoretical and aesthetic insights on every page. It has the dense, compact, and rich qualities of basalt. Ariel's Ecology embraces...
Artist Repertoire Index
...In Your Close Friend Scott, Cliff (1969) Baby Please Don’t Go John Henry Long Wavy Hair Pole Plattin’ Salty Dog Sweet Old Tampa You Are My Sunshine Thomas, Lonzie (early...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...people just trying to live, trying to figure out why working so hard and being held up as the salt of the earth—while being denied all that they need to...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...