Nigger Street 1937
...late-staying patrons early in country churches on Sunday mornings and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together ...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...never wrote coiled in field reports and requisitions, and three days later a church-bomb in Birmingham blew the stained-glass face of Christ like a dandelion head in the roadside weeds....
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...the sink, waiting for the unfortunate accidents that punctuate the day and night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time. Published in The Boatloads...
Emporia newspapers
...However, This Is Not Dixie and He Will Probably Be Left for the Law to Handle Sunday morning at the hour of about 3:20 Mrs. Johnson Lusk whose husband...
Birmingham, Alabama images
Birmingham, Alabama: Fashion Model, Sloss Furnaces Birmingham's Sloss Furnaces operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. Tourist Photographer, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church On Sunday, September 15,...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...thinking. "I wonder. I wonder." We shall overcome, We shall overcome We shall overcome some day. I WONDER. I really WONDER. Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
...has found a hidden pool among the small trees and stands there all day, staring coldly into the water, far from the songs, from the blood, from all the voices...
Brass Knuckles
Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...