Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake Adam York studied architecture and English at Auburn University. He received an M.F.A. and...
Piedmont Blues
...sake of clarity, this essay defines the Piedmont blues region as spanning from Danville, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, running approximately 325 miles from northeast to southwest and being seventy-five to...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week's featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta's east side. With its perilous, narrow...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...
A Mess of Poke
...Times on August 14, 2011, which features Kelly Callahan, a resident of East Atlanta, who began foraging on the abandoned lots of vacant, bank-owned properties in her area. Gardens planted...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...freeway, Claiborne Avenue. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Photograph by Lewis Watts. Courtesy of Lewis Watts. Throughout New Orleans Suite, the authors also use specific albums to launch and frame their...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...who were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s....
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...