An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
At Cornwall Furnace
Cherokee County, Alabama Blown out just after The War. The stack's granite gapes. Each year saplings try, as gravity has longer, a reclamation masonry won't allow. Lichens and moss do...
Antietam
...ground, gravel lodging in the skin of my palms. I cried the whole way home. After a week, the rocks were gone. My mother said our bodies can digest anything,...
#598, Common Meter
...absent from the flesh, And present Lord, with thee. From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...has happened, something final. Already the ants are at their efficient work, twisting the beetle slowly from side to side like waves rocking an empty boat. The bells keep time,...
History: The Parlor
..."including cyclopedias and books of influence," one mahogany upholstered sofa, three wooden rocking chairs, and a sewing machine. The furnishings and their placement in this house was typical for the...
Emporia newspapers
...which the officers believes [sic] was a rock. A painful gash was cut in Mrs. Lusks [sic] head as a result of the blow. She was stunned for a moment...
The Chimney
...stops at the glint from a rock, mica or quartz, and finds a coin so black and thin he can barely read the year — then, my father said, someone...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...degrees latitude; the border would then be drawn due west until it reached the Pacific Ocean. The original boundary was marked by hatchet marks on trees, strategically placed rocks, and...