Single Centers of Creation?
...is recycled from death, yet lush with life. For me an image that bores into the center of the earth, to our origins, is equally sacred as one that opens...
The Cobb County Braves
...Health Image Library, 1485. Originally called Centennial Olympic Stadium—the site was constructed for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics—the stadium hosted athletics competitions and opening and closing ceremonies. S. Zebulon Baker and...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...for consorting with a local black minister and inviting a noted white integrationist to speak at the annual Religious Emphasis Week on campus. Moving his family to Nashville, Campbell opened...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...long period of time, typically measured in four to five decades or more. When they succeed, they open up new conceptual terrain in ways that encourage us to rethink some...
Nashville, Tennessee images
Nashville, Tennessee: Renovation, War Memorial Building Opened in 1927, Nashville's War Memorial Building is part of the State Capitol Complex. Tourists and Legends Corner, Lower Broadway Legends Corner bills itself...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...as Public History (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995). Hayden discusses place as "one of the trickiest words in the English language" that "carries the resonance of homestead, location, and open...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...so upset Aunt Lavinia. She opened the car door and stepped out, scarcely able to breathe. Once there had been mountain after mountain, shedding fog in the morning, soaking up...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...rails against the immoral flamboyance of the counterculture. In Mellard's analysis, "Up Against the Wall" "strains to close the cultural rift" opened by Haggard's 1969 "Okie" by making the satire...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...County Livestock Auction sat just south of Marshall, the county seat. Tony Bratton, a local farmer, opened the auction in 1947. Jack Simpkins bought it in 1955 and ran it...