Changing Places, Changing Lives
...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Making History
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...
Sweep
...Hammond, who will think too slowly and turn his Air Force jet into the Arizona desert, and Don Appleton, who will drive out on a country road for a shotgun...
Atchison newspaper
...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...
Lawrence newspaper
...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...
Junction City newspaper
Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...
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...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...Christ, rasied from shards now glows, its angle an aftermath. But the rush, the wind's still here. Wet night air spreads name from name, pulling the sheets from his grip,...