Gold Records in Deep Space
...of dereliction. When Cash sings "dirt," Romanek cuts to a wide shot of the museum's former gift shop, devoid of people, but bearing visual traces of Cash — in posters,...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...Super’s thumb tho when shop stewards hound dues I don’t know what’s what thinkin’ this work here is dues enough what’s a union do for me? Sadie, she took my...
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...otherwise noted. For information on historic images, see Recommended Resources. Documentary footage included in Part 4 of plasterer and Seventh Ward resident Earl Barthé creating a molding in his workshop...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long. I've also been listening to some music that's helping me adapt to this new world we're in: "World of Strange Design"...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Review On June 19, 1911, the quiet evening descending on Thorndale, Texas, shattered suddenly when a group of men exiting a saloon attacked a youth they found whittling wood. Eyewitnesses...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...of the Street's changing cultural geography. Campanella chronicles several social and cultural developments that helped transform the strip: racial segregation and desegregation, the changing soundscape, the ubiquity of souvenir shops,...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...in Memphis when she was thirty years old, then had her seamstress shop burned out in the Chicago fire of 1871. Tragedy only heightened her empathy for her fellow workers...
Work
...short stories and poems and taught creative writing for the Duke Short Course Program and the Duke Writers Workshop. Arnoult lived the first nineteen years of her life in the...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...in Photoshop on scans of these negatives that I shot and printed many years ago, and I'm seeing things that I hadn't seen in a long time, and I'm looking...