Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...forests, with dune ridges showing places of sand accretion. 2:58 – The Sapelo Island Lighthouse is an example of a human landmark connecting the island with past shipping of agricultural...
Rent
...that had already been let go. Privet crowded the porch, and a wall bowed into the parlor—abandoned honey swollen inside it, the plaster crazed. We would share that house with...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...be used in another block, but this is not the case. The quilt maker must add quarter-inch seam allowances on all sides when cutting templates for a pattern. The addition...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...and treasure was something inside my house, something I could hold, like the silverware Mama kept in a leatherette case in the dining room. I was a white child of...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
..."sheetings, drills and print cloths, including red fancy bandanas used by railroad men." [Source: Michael Leonard, Our Heritage: A Community History of Spartanburg County (Spartanburg: Band & White, 1986), p....
Substantiation
...courthouse windows where the sheriff shuffles cards for a blind man and the defense team. At a levee camp that night he asks for whiskey and she gives him a...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Cherokee Chief, ca. 1866. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Seminary Hall, Northeastern State University, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, 2008. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Caleb...