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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Light minister, Samuel Davies of Virginia. Sent as a missionary to the Cherokees in October 1758, Richardson was out of his depth and had no success whatever in the assignment....

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...

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...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

Whiskey and Geography

...But they did so, even though their words rang with hypocrisy. Hosea Thomas' still workers in Endicott, (Franklin County) Virginia, 1915.  The Martin, Rake, and Thomas families trace their origins...

Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism

Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...