Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...so I look like a monkey when I look in mirrors big muscular arms and back on a skinny little frame kinda wiry, funny, even to me the biceps aren’t...
Geography
...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else. 2. At...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...
Letter: Blues
...slate-branched tree sway from the roots — I've got to buy some proper, winter boots. So many boxes! Crates and crates of books. I must get oil soap, bleach, picture...
Anniversary
...walk away, against the traffic, if it comes, up Washington, through the grainy air, and let this be a kind of justice, coming in the place you made, however late,...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Republican. Wuthnow chronicles such seeming contradictions throughout 480-plus pages, over a hundred pages of notes, and an exhaustive bibliography. While Rough Country will remind many readers of Wuthnow's recent writings...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...remembers 'that chairs were placed on the balcony of the two-story building to accommodate the crowds gathered to witness the lynching,' while he stayed behind locked doors in his office,...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...graduate, Dowda frequently presents throughout the Atlanta metro area. Dowda's work has appeared in Oxford American, Bad at Sports, ArtsATL, BURNAWAY, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Atlanta Magazine. She has exhibited...
Roadside Architecture
...scenes and activities, churches, cotton gins, roadside stores, and many of the people I've encountered along the way—their likenesses as portraits, their worship services, their family reunions, some of the...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...accidental, haphazard layering. Here, recent events — the pressures of changing cultural values and beliefs — left traces on historical cityscapes that already displayed little, if any, conscious purpose. In...