Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...and that civil rights organizations had little or no impact on black voting. The ASCS hoped to white out the powerful civil rights challenge, but documentation resulted in three chapters...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...sight-reading that spread westward from Boston through the northeastern United States. A pair of New York-based songbook compilers introduced the use of shape-notes in 1801.1The title itself of William Little...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...labor, and benefits of our birds. Call it a coop co-op. Our little poultry project tapped into a passion among people who want to model a certain kind of ethical...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...something for you? But I was all out of maidens bound to rocks. So I took him on a roller coaster, wedging in next to his breastplated body in the...
#209, Long Meter
1) We are a garden walled around, Chosen and made peculiar ground, A little spot enclosed by grace Out of the world’s wild wilderness. 2) Like...
Remnants of Flannery
...with something a little more untethered to legend."4Brooke Hatfield in discussion with the author, September 2014. While Dan Murdoch and Ashley Anderson painted "mind-blowing beautiful" portraits, "Yoonhwa Jang's [portrait of...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...is relatively little research on the sizable metropolitan populations within the region. Does urbanization launder out culture? Does Appalachian culture flourish only when used as a tourism and commercial stimulus...
How I Shed My Skin
...as "a good little racist" (18), Jimmy was the first to hurl an epithet at chubby Violet. When she spoke back with poise and pride, giving as good as she...