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...fever, burning and burning. When the doctor left the house, my grandmother snuck in the back door with a croaker sack of mackerel. She wrapped me all up in that...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...path; they were instead following in the well-traveled footsteps of their parents and grandparents" (199). As African Americans resisted, so too did some whites. This Is Not Dixie offers several...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...on American culture, I find more parallels with the central themes of his Communities of Discourse (1989). Although markedly different—the grand scope of European history as compared with a more...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...worked in the music printing company Kieffer's grandfather, the Mennonite Joseph Funk, owned. The two reunited over a shared love of shape-note singing and a desire to reclaim "the pastoral...
Whiskey and Geography
Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...food and water. I endured the songs they sang for the dead. There was no one left who could tell them the stories of how their grandmothers had once turned...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Museum. According to Goetz, both women wanted their children and grandchildren to know public housing "existed as a community" (2). One of the numerous contributions of Goetz's New Deal Ruins...
Mapping Souths
...not any one smile," he wrote, "to think of the Ohio River and the Potomac being such grand national barriers as must . . . constitute of necessity the nations...
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,...