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...
The Dirt Eaters
...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...
Ellipsis
...the walls: Mildew, semen, camphor, Oft-handled bills, coin metal, Cornbread breath that whispers and swallows and breathes. One day, as in the best bodice-rippers, the house burned down to the...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...homes where Mother's Day dinners cooled while the locals watched the smoke agitate the north Alabama sky, and Janey Miller, the twelve year old with a well bucket and a...
Anniversary
...like the water in Court Square's fountain, in Hebe's offered cup, as if our legs, our arms remember some traffic and follow it here on another Sunday like a traveler,...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...