Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Salt Creek, meanwhile, tells the classic Florida story of transformation and rapine. The waterway formerly known as "Salt Run" drains lower-lying land, never particularly suited for human habitation. Starting in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depicts Appalachia as a wild and rural refuge from urban and suburban development. But this first Frazer photograph disrupts its own image of Appalachia as simple, rural refuge by including...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Cherokee Nation in Georgia as Cherokee County. A bill the following year subdivided Cherokee County into nine additional counties. Approximately five hundred square miles of land bordering Alabama was designated...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...have pointed out how slave society was divided along lines of gender, between town and country, and African ethnicity. The human geography of rural neighborhoods demarcated another faultline. Slave society...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the clouds closed quietly around the moon as the thunder rumbled and the heavy drops began to fall, slowly at first, then irregularly, then increasing to a rhythmic rush of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...crowd: a mixed humanity of international tourists, locals, white and black visitors, children, art students, and elderly couples. They enter running into the grotto to escape the storm and drafty...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...or modern conveniences or jobs behind for the seeming purity of rural areas, trading the modern for the "exotic," "abandoning the centers of capitalist development for some 'elsewhere' that keeps...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005). Agricultural biodiversity refers to human-modified components of biodiversity that contribute to the sustenance and health of human populations.8Shand, Human...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...and continue to grapple with the definition of a character. How do we distinguish between human and non-human characters, and how might we map disability? In some ways, I think...