Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...Environmental Studies. His Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems was published by Mercer University Press in 2011. His latest prose book is My Paddle to the Sea, published in November...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
Laurel River, North Carolina
...Rob Amberg. The new bridge over the Laurel River is the tallest bridge in North Carolina at 240 feet, Laurel River, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. The new...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...2008. His well-written and suggestive new book, Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, is as engrossing as it is grim. He argues convincingly that during the eighteenth and...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Besieged Terrain
...New York. Farther west is the Appalachian Plateau, technically not a mountain region at all, but a high tableland of sedimentary rock eroded over hundreds of millions years into knobs...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...structures around them had not changed; because reform laws would get repealed by a shift in the larger forces of power; because they themselves would forget what they knew, under...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
A Mess of Poke
...recent turn in the "locavore" movement toward wild food foraging, which seems to have particularly taken root in southern cities. See, for instance, a lengthy article in the New York...