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

Dirty Little Story

...my state, my people. I say I hope this won't be the permanent impression of Mississippi that they take away. We try to let the children swim, but the joy...

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...courtesy of Rob Amberg. 180-ton dump truck hauling debris to a fill area, north of Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Highway construction in process, Buckner Gap,...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...when he founded his company at the height of Jim Crow restrictions in 1952. The 8,761-square-foot residence on 714 Shorter Terrace signals the hard work and commitment of businessmen and...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...to set things right. Goldenrod blazes the highway's shoulders, all the way to Birmingham or Chattanooga, and starlings gather like glass, like grackles in the trees, such sociability an advance...

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

Whitts’ BP Station at the top of Murray Mountain on US 23 North, Murray Mountain, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Dale Fluty on the highway: "We would agree...

Jarvis Branch, North Carolina

Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...like those gracing many of Charleston's historic homes, imply a Greek temple, symbolizing the culture celebrated by Euro-Americans for its democratic ideals. Ironically, these very columns recall how the forced...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...in the sixteenth century and, like Tyll, takes you to places and times that seem very real although very far away. And, after some weeks, I have worked my way...