The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...suburb of Lakeview and virtually all of New Orleans East undeveloped at that time, the population density was double that of today. The city's wharves extended upriver from beyond the...
A Mess of Poke
...Times on August 14, 2011, which features Kelly Callahan, a resident of East Atlanta, who began foraging on the abandoned lots of vacant, bank-owned properties in her area. Gardens planted...
The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...open a uranium enrichment plant; and further east, Citizens Against Toxic Exposure in Pensacola, Florida, who won relocation away from Mt. Dioxin, the toxic leavings from a timber processing yard...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Salamander Plethodon chattahoochee Chattahoochee Slimy Salamander Plethodon longicrus* Crevice Salamander [SC] Plethodon kentucki Cumberland Plateau Salamander Eurycea quadridigitata* Dwarf Salamander [SC] Pseudotriton montanus montanus Eastern Mud Salamander Plethodon cinereus Eastern...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...epidemic in our community (Atlanta and the Southeast, specifically) and the quilt's significance as a memorial practice, you fixate on the pink flamingo—always standing, stationary, frozen in its tight stiches—to...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...plants from the Holcombe Nursery in Decatur, five miles east of Atlanta. When he learned that the Holcombe family wanted to sell their property in 1980, he jumped at the...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...on Buford Highway. Chamblee, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2001 Two men at the Feast Day celebration in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Misión Católica. Doraville, Georgia. Photo...