Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...explorations of postage stamps of community soil, I ask Thompson, "How can you understand the South if you won't stop and stay?" The real answer, perhaps, is just that I'm...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...site, a place where visitors could pull off the highway to stop at the memorial, a place for meditation and for ongoing education. Former Greyhound terminal, downtown Anniston, Alabama, 2009....
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
Essay Here’s for an expanding hope. —Oh-OK, “Brother,” 1982 Oh-OK, Furthermore What cover, DB Records, 1984. If you want to start an argument, just ask any 40- to 50-ish-year-old fan...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...in Port Elizabeth, South Africa we stopped to eat an arranged meal in what Mississippians would recognize as a juke joint-café. Billiard tables engaged the locals, and we heard African...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...alluvial land and moss draped swamps, their single stoplight towns and rural architecture. Here a photographer sees the markers of preindustrial agricultural societies—the boarded plantation store, the lonely white-framed Missionary...
Dirty Little Story
...bluff with all our paraphernalia. We stop short. Even the children are horrified by the litter. I have never seen anything like it, not on Pickwick or anywhere else. And,...
Anniversary
...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...chair for reading. The mantelpiece still contains her clock stopped at 4:13, small framed photographs, and a Whitman's candy box. There is the sense that this is the way it...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...by Rosanne Cash, "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by the Byrds, and "Stop This World" by Mose Allison. Theotis Taylor, Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 1977. Photograph by Beverly J. Robinson. Courtesy of...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...prior. Yet, in his brief period of mourning, Zawadski never stopped fighting for the dignity and freedom the couple deserved. What was denied in life, we should grant in death....