Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Smokey Bear. However, foresters such as Yale professor H. H. Chapman, and Austin Cary and Eloise Gerry of the US Forest Service, demonstrated their understanding of fire as a management...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...someone to do with Faulkner on celluloid what has only been attempted on stage thus far. The theater troupe the Elevator Repair Service has staged a dramatic reading of the...
Brushes with War
...thank soldiers for their service, I also need to salute the artists who depict their wartime world. About the Author Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
Congregation
...as the vestibule—neither in, nor out. The service went on. I did nothing but watch, my face against the glass—until someone turned, looked back: saw me. Benediction I thought...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...States. He also gives particular attention to the role of Spanish colonial policies on manumission, self-purchase, and militia service in creating New Orleans’s unique caste of free people of color....
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...native plants from parishioners, Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church dedication service, Miami, Florida, February 1, 2015. Photo by Ana Rodriguez-Soto. Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Miami. This assessment hinges on...
Mississippi Delta
...unknown creator. Bottom, African-American tenant cabin, Armstrong Plantation, Mississippi, 1934. Photograph by unknown creator. Both photographs courtesy of Mississippi State University Libraries, Special Collections Department, University Archives, Cooperative Extension Service Photographs,...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...Georgia, 2010. Years later, after a career in the Marines and another in food services, after a family was mostly raised and gone, after twenty-five years in a boat in...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...Bone, 2010. In several scenes set in the interior of the family’s home, Ree, her siblings, and their mother carry on ordinary activities while gospel tunes and public service announcements...