Little Creek, North Carolina
Grave marker from the Woody family cemetery that was moved for I-26, Little Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mr. Thomas standing next to his parent’s grave in...
Higgins Branch, North Carolina
Tombstones flagged for removal at the Higgins Branch Cemetery, Higgins Branch, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Bricking the Church
...North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...to get back to making pictures. I had been washing my hands incessantly as I drove from North Carolina to Mississippi, always keeping sanitizer close, trying to puzzle out how...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...& A. Topics include how Lawrence’s correspondence inform her writing Acknowledgements Many thanks to Northwestern State University of Louisiana's Watson Memorial Library Cammie G. Henry Research Center for the materials from...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Palomares Bajo
...Air Force dropped nuclear bombs on Spain. By accident. In early 1966, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52—en route from the Goldsboro, North Carolina, base to the...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...common, fluid border in the geographic regions of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Rio Grande and Pecos Railway Company, Detail of a map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway...