Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
Sign advertising new motel at Exit 3, Bear Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Unidentified people sitting on their porch at Bear Branch before they have to vacate...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...view of his subject: there are pictures from restored plantation homes, pictures of churches and dwellings, and pictures of roadside quirks—a cow statue, a "hot lunch" sign with the lettering...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...or signifying on the "southern fried chicken triple talk" of Jimmy Carter ("Bicentennial Blues"). Tempting as it might be for the casual listener to analyze his art solely within a...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Harp and the significance of this region to the book’s creation. Settlement by whites and enslaved blacks was made possible by treaties and appropriations between 1805 and 1836 through which...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...cast of characters who invented the category of southern music, a significant part of what is called "folk" or "Americana" or "roots" music today and understood as part of the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Tucked away in hollers throughout Central Appalachia, mountaintop removal has only recently received significant press coverage as the knowledge of global climate change becomes more pervasive and the scrutiny of...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...shed as the house appears in relative contrast — pleasant, somewhat imposing, and upright. It is larger than I had expected and inviting despite its desertion. A small sign indicates...