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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Hanson, Bradley. "The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee." Southern Spaces, November 20, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/tennessee-jamboree-local-radio-barn-dance-and-cultural-life-appalachian-east-tennessee. Matthews,...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Piedmont Blues
...accepting invitations to concerts and folk festivals. In 1991 she received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Baker's syncopated two-and three-finger guitar styles recalls Elizabeth...
Failed Memory Exercise
...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...and fouler until it seemed to possess a palpable horrible density that could be seen and felt and cut with a knife. (79) Gettysburg was a "degenerative moment," Smith writes...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...excavation disturb or destroy the Cherokee dead, Cherokee life is imperiled. The life that Cherokee ghosts enact draws time, space, and self into one conceptual and existential field, making stories...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Service and New Deal agencies such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA). Typically, federal agencies acquired the land (through purchase or donation) and federal workers...