Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...relation to the conflicting demands of survival, personal autonomy, and family loyalty. According to recent scholarship on the long survival of the “dark fairytale” in the Ozarks, what particularly marks...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...the lobby of a hotel-apartment, is no longer operable, though reference can be found at "Minetta Green," NYC Parks, Access April 11, 2023, www.nycgovparks.org/parks/minetta-green/history; Village Creek Environmental Human & Environmental...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...History 7, no. 1 (1922): 64–107; Janet Lee Ricks, "Mt. Zion United Methodist Church Marks 185th Anniversary," Washington History 13, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001): 71–73. Around 1832, a group of...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Arkansas.com, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, accessed October 15, 2013, http://www.arkansas.com. A particular Arkansas primitivism merits attention here. Arkansas, writes Brooks Blevins, "has become in many ways indistinguishable from...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...encourage analyses of musical forms not typically associated with the US South and work that explores transnational contexts. Where possible, proposed works should include media—sound, video, maps, images—as well as...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...perfectly. The placement of the blocks, however, suggests that Mary made decisions to expedite the completion of her quilt. The twelve pieced blocks are separated by five-inch-wide strips of the...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...blocks, the pieces were arranged with attention to an attractive distribution of lights and darks. Striped fabrics and red highlights provide additional visual interest. Construction: The eight crazy-pieced blocks themselves...
Piedmont Blues
...reflects this, meshing traces of gospel, fiddle tunes, blues, country, and ragtime into its rolling, exhuberant sound." --Nick Spitzer Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley has significant links to the...