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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Sowing The Seed Underground

Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...one at a time, to a foundation square of fabric, then pressed back over the seam, building the pattern outward from the center. Log Cabin quilts can be made from...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...floats, barely visible through the early spring fog, advanced noisily down the seawall. Our targets—a consideration of oyster appellations and a revaluing of fish previously dismissed as trash—intermittently floated up...

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Sapelo Island Flyover

...reveals sediments from older environments, such as hundreds-year-old relict marshes exposed along Cabretta Beach on Sapelo's northeastern edge. Sapelo Island in the Sea Islands Watershed. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative...

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...for attendance, brought together an unprecedentedly international group of Sacred Harp singers, and served as revelatory and emotionally overwhelming experiences to attendees. These events also served as sites around which...