The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...clarity. In neighborhoods where renovations and repairs progressed more quickly, most homeowners painted over the codes early in the process. Some still remark on how errant markings required a complete...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...the Black family. Sale Day, Spartanburg, 1881 Held the first Monday of every month, Sale Day in Spartanburg, SC served as the primary market and the trade day for town...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of minutes, the chaotic scene turned deadly. Steps away from his mother, a thirteen year-old-white boy lay motionless on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. A few hours later,...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...have made some of the richest and most extensive collections of such tales in these two mountainous regions. Moonlit swamp, Winter's Bone, 2010. The “grim” fairytale, like the story Winter’s...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...decades of my life, I called the northeast Georgia mountains home. For most of the years since, home has been Decatur, Georgia, a small city east of downtown Atlanta. Here...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...The statement "Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy" does more than just identify the maker. Mary Kate abbreviated information elsewhere, but here she wrote out her mother's maiden name, revealing that...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...Snoddy Coan's) crazy quilts incorporates a piece of unfinished patchwork made by her mother, according to the label, "during the Civil War." The center of the quilt is a large...