Ossabaw Island Flyover
...license CC BY-SA 2.5. Ecosystems on Ossabaw include salt marshes, maritime forests, beaches, and a few freshwater ponds. Salt marshes are widespread west of Ossabaw, but also occupy much of...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...1970, lawyer and activist Pauli Murray expressed her ambivalence toward the organization: While I am recording this material on behalf of SCLC, . . . for quite some time, I’ve...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...issue, movements to protect the living environment have existed for a long time in different forms. As André Gorz noted in Ecologica: "The ecological movement was born long before the...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Ireland Convention, travel brought sizable numbers of European singers to each other’s singings for the first time.14A handful of Irish singers visited the United Kingdom in April, 2011, for the...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...make a powerful argument for more sustainable floodplain use, claiming that "[w]e have wasted more than a century pursuing a foolish idea: the floodless floodplain." Now "[i]t's time to try...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...varying scholarly norms and expectations, the field has to strive for the best understanding and interpretation of the region and people. Appalachia deserves no less. Despite these problems, could it be...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...