Little Creek, North Carolina
Grave marker from the Woody family cemetery that was moved for I-26, Little Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mr. Thomas standing next to his parent’s grave in...
Higgins Branch, North Carolina
Tombstones flagged for removal at the Higgins Branch Cemetery, Higgins Branch, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
I-26 looking west at Buckner Gap, Madison County, North Carolina, 2008
Bricking the Church
...North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...to get back to making pictures. I had been washing my hands incessantly as I drove from North Carolina to Mississippi, always keeping sanitizer close, trying to puzzle out how...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Salamander Pseudotriton ruber ruber Northern Red Salamander Plethodon glutinosus Northern Slimy Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus Northern Spring Salamander Plethodon dorsalis Northern Zigzag Salamander Desmognathus ocoee Ocoee Salamander Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Capó's Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Capó: First, let me thank you for the opportunity to share my work and...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...defined the northern side of the river as free of slavery, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, was the culmination of multiple power struggles among Indian tribes, French and British imperialists,...