Sams Gap, North Carolina
...of Rob Amberg. Truck Driving West on the newly opened Tennessee side of I-26 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. On the highway and...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...full projects Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California,...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...individual chapters? Admitting the difficulty of language barriers and distinctions, Lowe opens the conversation to other scholars with greater proficiency in the non-English speaking locales of this circumCaribbean (11). Top,...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...Southern Spaces, an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal, invites innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global connections. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...be lifted, revealing a charred Bible nestled in its core. The experience of opening the church sculpture is akin to that of opening a treasure chest: awe, disbelief and a...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...
"Aint that Something?"
...fill of Canard County," fifteen-year-old Dawn Jewell proclaims in the opening cartoon panel of Trampoline (1). Canard County is a fictional county in Eastern Kentucky. It's rural, poor, and white....
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...the upsurge of the modern tourism industry. Campanella pinpoints "the birthplace and birthday of modern Bourbon Street" (107) as the opening of Maxime's nightclub in January 1926, and chronicles the...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Altidor. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Courtesy of New York University Press. Crossing the Water and Keeing the Faith opens with a vivid description of Alex Jean Altidor's prominent mural at...