Gone With the Wind
One night in 1940 my granddad slumped in the dark in the Princess Theatre, which is not here anymore, to watch Gone With the Wind, then watch it again, in...
Work
...room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap, of doffers...
History: The Parlor
...Compared with the Evins estate, the household inventory of Mary's maternal grandparents is much less detailed, but nonetheless revealing. When Silas Benson died in 1875, the officials conducting the inventory...
Topeka newspapers
...big revolver and kept the Texans covered until the train reached Topeka... …Lewis is a resident of Wichita and a very respectable colored man. He is grand chancellor of the...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...of our grandmothers who are pierced, and probably do not want to hear about Thomas Hardy, who, if I remember, has been dead longer than they have been alive, And...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...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...