Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...all but 7.5 of the Parkway's 469-miles opened to the public in 1961. Those final few miles, around Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the "missing link," took another twenty-six years...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...artist. Born in Memphis in 1939, Eggleston grew up there and in Sumner, Mississippi, at his grandparent's home. While Eggleston has worked across the United States including Califorinia, New York,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...heat of Louisiana June. We sat at a long wooden dining table in Chauvin with Christopher's grandpa so Lindsey could conduct an interview, and he served us snowballs the right...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...2013 Mississippi Delta, July 23, 2018. Map by Stephanie Bryan. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Ed Scott's grandson, Daniel Scott, took me through the ruins of the catfish plant. It had...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...years; daughters Penny and Bonnie Campbell; a son, Webb Campbell; four grandchildren, Harlan, Kyle, Will, and Cole Campbell; and a brother, Paul Campbell. About the Author John Egerton was born...
Putting up Beans
...the funeral for the grandma down the road how she’d spent so much time making this apron I remember on my lap. In a time where women don’t wear aprons...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...a portrait painting by Logan, all in antique frames from the collection. Once grand, these aging portrait frames suggest the decaying porticoes of Charleston, now in the process of renovation....
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“I myself am from Texas,” writes a child, “though my mother was from Mexico, and my grandmother from the Yucatán, I am proud to be third generation to travel great...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Author Brent M.S. Campney is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is author of This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence...
Insistent Traces
...reads the poem "Aftermath." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757059 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757420 Claudia Emerson reads the...