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

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...Mary made this quilt before her marriage in 1889 and suggesting Mary's pride in her identity and family connections. History: Mary's "Save All" is an example of a family of...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

  "Paul's Crazy Quilt-center pieced by Rosa Benson Snoddy during Civil War. Auntie made the rest of it. Quilted by her, Cousin Mag & Auntie." History: One of Nannie's (Nancy...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....

Failed Memory Exercise

...Those things that wore away and primed a vacancy. But he sat there while my distant cousin shined his shoes, And then he simply walked across Main to the depot,...

The Chesapeake Bay

Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...