Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...also instructive for an 1850s southern audience. Simms might have been thinking about the 1850s South as coming to grips with itself as a newly constituted revolutionary force, yet he...
Antietam
...that zigzag fence. We tried to picture 23,000 of anything. It wasn't that pretty. The dirt smelled like cats. Nobody knew who the statues were. Where was Stonewall Jackson? We...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen since he was...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
Runaway
...that tree's duty to that Smell and knew too my duty to tear like a switch through Air, to strike the street's edge in a pair of tattered shoes, Unconnected,...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
"Glistening in the newest coat of paint from the platform of the street car terminal station to the big white fence at the back of the toboggan slide; enlarged, improved...
Artist Repertoire Index
...New Orleans Bound Oh, Red Paparia Open You Big Fat Thighs Poor Boy Rock Me The Root Blues See What You Did to Me Slow Song (I Can’t Go Home)...