Jackson, Mississippi images
...business district. Mississippi State Fair Held annually in October, the Mississippi State Fair draws visitors from throughout the South. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...Fifty yards downstream a granite cliff rises two hundred feet into the air to cast this section of river into shadow. She glances back to where her parents and brother...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
Georgia Postcard
I. Atlanta The black men are fine and abundant at the airport. The women have spent many hours on their hair. II. Sixty-Five MPH All-u-can eat, boiled shrimp, fried fish....
Darkly
...in the air where they held a gun on Willie Edwards and told him he could jump. How you'd ask me — Why? so simple it won't tell a thing...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...
Quilting Conversation
...Corporation, and the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport). She is a teaching artist affiliated with the High Museum, VSA arts of Georgia, the Atlanta Partnership for the Arts in Learning, and the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...A/C. I sat on a stool, he reclined in an electric wheelchair. It was my first visit with him. He recounted more to me, of his tours in World War...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...lost. The sacred songs and sacraments performed by Mt. Tinna members in 1990 may no longer take place in 2010, but Rankin’s photographs, with their air of solemnity and reverence,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
Review Willie Birch, Martin Luther King Day Parade, 2003. Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery. In Roll With It:...