Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...star are among the most recognizable of the chemical dyes that became widely available during the 1870s. It is quite likely that Rosa Snoddy pieced the star, but she would...
Piedmont Blues
...longest-lasting double act in blues history. McTell, Blind Willie McTell (1901-1959) grew up in Statesboro, Georgia, and made his living as a popular street musician. Playing a twelve-string guitar ,...
Failed Memory Exercise
...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...century. They often saw the region as a "wilderness, as God first ordained it." They were struck by the forests especially and the density of foliage, and like most Englishmen...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...1861–1864 when, as Smith puts it: "The nation that had prided itself on its civilized control of the senses lost that control" (6). Smith's book is structured around five events,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the states of Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina regarded their far-flung kin as either outsiders or as rivals who had abandoned them in their fight against the federal and state...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...past. O'Brien found only three such parks still in operation today: Tennessee's Booker T. Washington and T.O. Fuller State Parks, and North Carolina's Jones Lake State Park (153). O'Brien argues...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...epidemic in our community (Atlanta and the Southeast, specifically) and the quilt's significance as a memorial practice, you fixate on the pink flamingo—always standing, stationary, frozen in its tight stiches—to...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...privileged in static narratives or histories. The Ghost Map series, for example, is a composite of vector-based GIS layers, archival materials, and oral histories that document changes in the physical...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...