Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...guitar] [0.00–0.14] That Sunday woman, she bring me the news That Monday woman, boys, I’m telling you Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t no telling, man,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...
Work
...the mother to two children. By twenty-five, she was divorced and a single parent. Arnoult supported her family for nineteen years through a series of odd jobs, from delivering newspapers,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Atlanta. It was also a milestone show for the High Museum, at it was the first solo show the institution has dedicated to an Atlanta-based artist.3See http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13925208. Memory as Medicine...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...worst conceivable outcomes of incarceration. They often covered up or ignored acts of defiance, downplayed them in the pages of the camp newspaper. These silences, apparent absences in our historical...