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

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,...

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...

Off-Season

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, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...

Stones and Shadows

...sound of traffic from the highway is insufferable. I smile at my father and try to think of kind things to say to him. He smiles. But driving home, he...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...series represents "Parks'[s] consequential rethinking of the types of images that could sway public opinion on civil rights."3Maurice Berger, "With a Small Camera Tucked in My Pocket," in Gordon Parks,...