Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...The farmers bred them for size and taste and texture and profit. They swam around in that little man-made lake and waited for the chopping block and the flash-frozen package....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Florida and contributed directly to the signing of the Civil Rights Act in June 1964.65Warren, If it Takes All Summer; David R. Colburn, Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine Florida, 1877–1980 (Gainesville:...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...