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

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FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...will find the old playground of Ponce de Leon has passed away, and in its stead a fairyland has been created, studded with multitudinous attractions [midway, skating rink, picnic grounds,...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...Birmingham: The Magic City, now expressway scars the blank and even the streets are gone where you walked as Herman, then Sonny, musician, mystic man from Saturn, in your tinfoil...

Stones and Shadows

...ask why. "The mausoleum keeps expanding," he says, without irony. "Have you ever been to a filing? Your mother and I went to our first last week." I give him...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...sold only cattle—as many as three thousand steers a day from up to a hundred miles away. As business dwindled—and only months after I documented it in 2009—Simpkins decided to...

Bear Branch, North Carolina

...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...