Vestibule
...strangest place you've ever . . . ?" No, I want to thank her for the truth of it. For knowing that the heart is holy even when our own...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...
Just as Sure
...bad he didn't get that through my brother Willie's head. That fool found his level in the lowest places. Through all the bad, Daddy said still he was his son....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...
Regions of Alabama
...of place to "Alabamians," highlighting the good and bad of provincialism Part 4: Dr. Flynt explores the failure of Alabama's political leadership About the Speaker Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...caused unusually high tides to flood marshes, roads, and other low-lying places on Sapelo, a phenomenon repeated there and along the rest of the Georgia coast in late October 2015....
Love and Death in Mississippi
Blog Post I can remember the first time I understood death. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, early in the mornings, my mother would visit one of her home care...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey, Windward Coast, 2009-2011. Piano keys, plaster bust, and glitter, dimensions vary. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. The installation at the High Museum places nearby a work entitled...