At Sun Ra's Grave
...where you wait beneath a stone and a secret name. * There are angels. There are angels! you said: They guard and watch. Tonight, their sudden wings multiply the city's...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...classes watched high dramas, vaudeville acts, minstrel shows, and, at times, motion pictures. In lynching Potter in the opera house, therefore, these working men were acclaiming their act of vengeance...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...high-profile in advocating a similar strategy for the blue states. But I wonder if Nossiter and Schaller were watching the same election that I was. If there is any lesson...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...child who carried that image to adulthood never watched grandma handle the messy business of slaughtering a hen that was no longer laying. After decades of Depression and World Wars,...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...once you get the audience. If you don't get the audience, you got nothing."1 David N. Rubin, Go-Go Swing (WETA-TV, 1990), videocassette, 60:00. In the late 1980s, go-go rose to...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...watched the moon circle down. Mama sang a song to us often: “See the Man in the Moon. Mama gonna come back soon. But don’t you worry none. She won’t...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...that we most definitely needed the highway. We've watched families, people killed over there on Murray Mountain. Accident after accident. And the whole community in fear that one of these...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...You won't even see me in the morning. You can do your own work or go to town with Regina and set and watch the bugs" (6 Aug 1960). Company...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...watching that particular film. We sat in a mansion in Houma—one that is once a year a haunted house—and ate seeds from mason jars while talking politics with a local...
History: The Parlor
...Compared with the Evins estate, the household inventory of Mary's maternal grandparents is much less detailed, but nonetheless revealing. When Silas Benson died in 1875, the officials conducting the inventory...