Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...
When the Border Crossed Me
...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...between the two men. Both Campbell and Marlette denied any connection between the real and imaginary characters under the black hat. In his writing and in public discourse, Campbell could...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...earned her B.A. in English with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Omega sorority, married and gave birth to her first son. While completing her PhD in English Literature...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...Freezing is rare. Rainfall is about 50 inches (127 centimeters) a year, with the majority of precipitation during the May–September hurricane season. Despite the impact of Hurricane Matthew on October...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...hispanic mother and almost saved by a cop who brought from his pocket a shirt's worth of proof before the woman vanished with her English, before the psychics started rowing...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...of modesty and humility prescribed by her upcountry Presbyterian faith. She wore a brown silk dress for her wedding, but as a young woman, she chose to wear cotton dresses...
Geography
...from each time: a man pining for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead on a slab at St. James. I’m too young to know this is foreshadowing. To get away...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...