Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...geography as wild refuge (Figures 19, 20). Images of Appalachia as a sacrifice zone reinforce these norms by presenting the opposite—such as Dobree Adams's active mining sites in Perry County,...
New Website for Music Memory
...concept of scholarly databases. The site will focus upon recordings made during the "Golden Age of roots music" (1925–1950), and the recordings will be digitized primarily from 78 RPM records...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...of regional history. The Burgert Brothers archive is no exception.1The photos in this section can be found at the library website, although in many ways this archive made by a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...You at the Movies." The Roanoker, July/Aug 2008. http://theroanoker.com/interests/business/see-you-at-the-movies/ Hull's Angels' members pay annual dues, encourage press coverage, and run fundraising activities. Online sites, such as Jennifer Sherer's Drive-ins.com and...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...have drawn attention to local sites important to Black history; in particular, the significance of the Keese Barn site, only a few hundred steps from the Green, which in the...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...have sung Sacred Harp have helped shape their musical tastes. Veterans prefer square, wooden buildings such as rural churches and schoolhouses. The pastoral lyrics provide continuity between many participants' rural...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...decades in rural north Fulton County, in a log cabin she called Sweet Apple. After rearing her children in midtown Atlanta, she moved to Sweet Apple at age forty-nine, commuting...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
..."The Genesis of Downtown: Logan-Welch West Virginia Urban Coalfield Life, The Photographs of Russell Lee and Earl Dotter, 1946 and 2006" and "Our Future in Retrospect: Coal Miner Health in...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...(1897): 251–253. Hot Springs's selection as the site of the federal government's "model" VD clinic would not have surprised early twentieth-century Americans.10C.N. Myers, "Hot Springs and the Model Federal Venereal...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...that preceded it, through a motorcade stopping at sites of memory. Simultaneously, about 350 pickup trucks, cars, and motorcycles, most of them sporting the Confederate battle flag, participated in a...