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...
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...
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
...name of joy is music. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 194-196. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney Jones and Southern Spaces...
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
...added, which promise in time to become as universally popular as the old… " (Atlanta Journal, May 13, 1906) Published: 15 January 2008 © 2008 Sarah Toton and Southern Spaces...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Meat Skin Barfield, Cecil aka William Robertson (1976, 1977, 1980, 1981) Ain’t Nobody’s Fool Baby, Please Don’t Go Big Legged Woman The Blue of the Mojo Hand Bottle Up and...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...Up Hill," New York Times, June 27, 1884]. Wood's obituary [Toledo Blade, May 4, 1909] indicates that he licensed his patent for as much as $17,000 in a single year,...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...