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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

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The Cobb County Braves

.... We are underserved by about 5,000 parking spaces." Many Atlanta residents are concerned that the new stadium site will not be easily accessible via MARTA. As Edward A. Hatfield...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...cursives of moonlight and dark each night, but this is where they found that postman from Baltimore, walking his integration letter to Ross Barnett, three hundred miles to go, shot...

In the Magic City

...iron, like stars that draw from the dark as they spin     Maubilla and Horseshoe Bend the way Elvin works the cymbals     into distant crowds. And when it ends...

Aftermath

...sharp frame the window made of the darkness. I confess that last house was the coldest I kept. In it, I became formless as fog, crossing the walls, formless as...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...solid dark red (similar to the red in Mary's Tulip) and a delicate print of five-pointed stars in red and brown superimposed over a pale-yellow grid printed on white. The...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...blocks, the pieces were arranged with attention to an attractive distribution of lights and darks. Striped fabrics and red highlights provide additional visual interest. Construction: The eight crazy-pieced blocks themselves...

Fort Scott newspapers

...brightest and darkest day which the people of this city ever experienced. During a year of unprecedented plenty the brawn and brain of Southern Kansas has been busy erecting the...