"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...
Sweep
...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...him, he asked, "Who is playing the other guitar?" He darted and slurred, a syncopation, a waltz evolving to jig. By slowing the record down and listening, a phrase at...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...in the most extreme period of capitalist exploitation for profit ever. Now, for those of us who have considered ourselves "professionals" can see more clearly the connections between work life...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...individually and silently, the family was likely to listen to someone reading aloud. Typically, the man of the house would read aloud, while women engaged in some form of sewing...
Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
Listed below are the poverty line percentages and per capita income figures for the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. With the exception of Harris and Chattahoochee counties...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
From Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968): I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. Images of all...
The Crowd He Becomes
...view, maybe shadowed in a doorway, japing in a storefront window, listening at a sandwich stand while everyone is talking, his work on every tongue. Maybe he could drift through...