The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...while they often performed difficult and dangerous work, both black and white longshoremen enjoyed steady employment at a decent wage. Life as a longshoreman also offered a degree of freedom...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Kentucky, or Pat Jarret's photograph of the Freedom Industries' chemical spill site in Charleston, West Virginia (Figures 21, 22). Other "natural settings" alter these frames: does Amanda Greene's North Georgia...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...explained in his 1993 book The Well-Placed Weed from which our documentary takes its title. Gainey's gardens feature a fascinating give-and-take between the structured and the free-flowing. Looking into Ryan...