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

Geography

...from each time: a man pining for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead on a slab at St. James. I’m too young to know this is foreshadowing.  To get away...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...

Failed Memory Exercise

...Those things that wore away and primed a vacancy. But he sat there while my distant cousin shined his shoes, And then he simply walked across Main to the depot,...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...I-26, 1995: Howard Jenkins:  "The new road, in our opinion, it's going to take traffic away from us even down there at the nearest place to an intersection in this...

Scarecrow

 "In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand   I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Six Yellow Stanzas

1. Didn't know what to do at the Boule Ball, so I put on a Mardi Gras mask of a smile and watched those Creoles second-line, light yellow faces, bright...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...variation in income-mobility across the US States's "commuting zones." Unsurprisingly, parts of the US South did not make a good showing in terms of upward mobility. The study proposes that...