Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...York City: Penguin, 2011) and are reprinted here courtesy of Penguin Books. "Heaven" and "Rearview Mirror" appeared in Sigodlin (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990) and are reprinted here courtesy...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...still can function as racial partitions. Photography is often implicated in this demarcation of space. (top left) Fun!; (top row middle) Unsold houses amid red clay; (top right) Mimicked eaves;...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Authors Phillip Obermiller, Chad Berry, and Shaunna Scott, Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Kentucky, June 5, 2014. Photograph by Rita Ritchie. Courtesy of Hindman Settlement School. Dr. Chad Berry is Berea...
Editors
...North Texas Gregg Michel, University of Texas, San Antonio Matt Miller, Emory University Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University Tim Minchin, La Trobe University Michael Moon, Emory University Gary Mormino, University...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Scott L. "John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Southern Spaces, August 6, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/john-cohen-eastern-kentucky-documentary-expression-and-image-roscoe-halcomb-during-folk-revival. Miller, Matt. "Dirty Decade: Rap...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...this quilt, but the construction and materials tell another story. The visual appearance of the pattern is deceiving: the convex piece cut from one fabric square looks like it might...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Failed Memory Exercise
...the trains don’t stop and no one's keeping store. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 34-35. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney...
The Chesapeake Bay
...million bushels. By the 1920s the oyster harvest was reduced to 2 to 4 million bushels annually until the 1950s. Since the fifties several virulent diseases have crippled the oyster...