Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...marriage gone flat, and a job checking out groceries, struggles with cocaine addiction. Everything seems newly rosy when she enters rehab and falls in love with a male nurse, until...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...with developing a course called "Rivers of Florida." For several semesters, I ventured with students in canoes and kayaks onto the state's many spectacular wild and scenic rivers—traveling hours for...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...of Art.5In 1830, Thomas Corcoran, William Wilson Corcoran's father and sometime mayor of Georgetown, owned five enslaved people. The 1840 census indicates that William Wilson Corcoran owned one male enslaved...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...decorated it with flowers and art. Guests admired both the "east wing" (my side) and the "west wing" (the neighbors') of the coop. Everyone feasted on a potluck dinner, including...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...committed to assisting scholars at varying levels of technological proficiency. We will work with submitters on the process of producing image, sound, and video files for submissions. We will accept...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...interplay of values and choices. Its theme — starting with sufficient resources and using them efficiently and effectively without waste and ostentation — is emblematic of its maker's orientation to...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...star are among the most recognizable of the chemical dyes that became widely available during the 1870s. It is quite likely that Rosa Snoddy pieced the star, but she would...
Piedmont Blues
...York State into Alabama, the Piedmont blues region remains a subset within this larger area. Realistically, culturally-defined regions are fluid constructions that often defy firm boundary line. However, for the...
Failed Memory Exercise
...black gush withers and dribbles to a drip, And memory gums like shavings in the burnt oil Now that plywood masks the windows of the stores, Which test me as...