"Aint that Something?"
...fill of Canard County," fifteen-year-old Dawn Jewell proclaims in the opening cartoon panel of Trampoline (1). Canard County is a fictional county in Eastern Kentucky. It's rural, poor, and white....
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...southern gospel. Their gorgeous cover of Hinton’s “Everybody Needs Love” recreates the elements of church, beginning with the elegant opening, “There are moonbeams we can dream on, when our working...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...of the powerful writing it had generated. She admired the prose of US Grant's Memoirs, at once lapidary and soldierly, highly, and opens her late work Four in America with...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...the upsurge of the modern tourism industry. Campanella pinpoints "the birthplace and birthday of modern Bourbon Street" (107) as the opening of Maxime's nightclub in January 1926, and chronicles the...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Altidor. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Courtesy of New York University Press. Crossing the Water and Keeing the Faith opens with a vivid description of Alex Jean Altidor's prominent mural at...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...understand, they had been looking for another place to go, but it was not ready yet. So the Jacksons, two houses down, just opened up their garage, and they started...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It is accessible via a web link, and requires no download. (https://battle-of-atlanta.opentour.site/tours) The event will...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...this song from "everywhere," it is the vehicle that the masculinist singer "rides down" in the opening verse, replaced in the second verse by "a woman" who "shakes like jelly...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...is accessible via a web link (https://battle-of-atlanta.opentour.site/tours) The mobile tour is part of an ECDS team project that includes Daniel Pollock, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11,...