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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Change

...to transplant those seedlings to each hill in the field, the space for that particular plant and we watched as they would grow. Before all of this new age, new...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...Environmental Studies. His Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems was published by Mercer University Press in 2011. His latest prose book is My Paddle to the Sea, published in November...

How I Shed My Skin

...phrase you'll never hear in the same way again. In 1966, Jimmy Grimsley, thirty other white students, and three new African American classmates Rhonda, Ursula, and Violet forged a "tepid...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

  The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those...

Laurel River, North Carolina

...Rob Amberg. The new bridge over the Laurel River is the tallest bridge in North Carolina at 240 feet, Laurel River, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. The new...

The Chesapeake Bay

...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...significant number of requests." Further, all members participate on a volunteer basis, spending much of our time otherwise as graduate students, teachers, doulas, herbalists, and nonprofit workers. Over the last two...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of beautiful suburban homes have been erected...." ("New Houses Erected" Atlanta Constitution (March 8, 1894), p. 8 ) Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895 Published: 15 January 2008...