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

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...the living from the eight winds and flung petals of the compass. And I won't assume, much as I've known it certain all along, that I'll never see Grandma again,...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...economic possibilities in Appalachian and Welsh coalfields. After Coal draws on archival footage recorded by Greatrex, Gaventa, and Lewis to document the long ties between these regions. Hansell also turned...

Fort Scott newspapers

...and killed him while his assailant was pummeling him." "Let Us Consider" "Friday will long remain a memorable day in the history of Fort Scott. It was at once the...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

..."The Restraints: Open and Hidden," Life Magazine, September 24, 1956, reproduced in Gordon Parks, 106. Parks took more than two-hundred photographs during the week he spent with the family. All...

The Change

...for days through thirty acres   and chopped them out with hoes. Hoes,   made long before   from wood and steel and sometimes (even longer ago) from wood and...

Zircon

Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...

And the Prize Goes to...

...Four of the seventeen participants were graduate students; the remaining were advanced undergraduates. Along with their interest in southern studies, they brought specializations in American studies, journalism, English, history, philosophy,...

Single Centers of Creation?

...Salamander Eurycea l. longicauda Long-tailed Salamander [SC] Stereochilus marginatus Many-lined Salamander Pseudotriton montanus diastictus Midland Mud Salamander Plethodon mississippi Mississippi Slimy Salamander Pseudotriton montanus Mud Salamander Desmognathus fuscus* Northern Dusky...