Fort Scott newspapers
...brightest and darkest day which the people of this city ever experienced. During a year of unprecedented plenty the brawn and brain of Southern Kansas has been busy erecting the...
Junction City newspaper
Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Go Bullfrog Blues Captain Had a Bulldog Catfish Blues Crawling King Snake Five Long Years Frolicking Blues Going Down South Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Good Love Blues Hoochie...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
She follows the river trail downstream, leaving behind her parents and younger brother who till eat their picnic lunch. She is twelve years old and it is her school's Easter...
Fall Creek
As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore claims clothes were shed...
The Chimney
...stops at the glint from a rock, mica or quartz, and finds a coin so black and thin he can barely read the year — then, my father said, someone...
Georgia Postcard
...spring, a spreading rash, blush. III. Kin: Sparta, Georgia 106-year-old Great-Aunt Kate calls it "the dry grin," what white people give you when they want you to think you are...
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...
Darkly
...Kitchen's gone. I can cruise, can walk and search each pane of glass for that wave of heat, the echo that will fill the night fifty years gone when five...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...that history solely in relation to the context of British colonialism, for science and empire entwined in the Gulf South for nearly three hundred years prior to US founding and...