Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...arms while Mareb chainsaws off both hands—providing Ree with the evidence of her father’s death that she needs to save the house and land. Many viewers have found the scenes...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural landscapes. The "wilderness" and...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Tinny, age seven, born in Maryland c. 1843: Mary Tinny, age five, born in the District of Columbia, c. 1845; Francis Tinny, age three, born in the District of Columbia,...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...distinctive for its cultivation of close harmony sung in ensembles—traditionally male quartets, a formation that dominated the commercial sector of southern gospel through roughly the first half of the twentieth...
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
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Piedmont Blues
...Piedmont blues tradition. Piedmont blues' raggy, finger-picking guitar style is emulated by many Lower Chattahoochee blues artists, and many Piedmont blues tunes have become Lower Chattahoochee standards, including Blind Boy...