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

Fife Family Cemetery

Video Fife Family Cemetery, Hughes County, Oklahoma, 2008. Filmed by Craig Womack and Rosemary McCombs Maxey, edited by Southern Spaces staff. Affiliated essay....

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...

Failed Memory Exercise

...the questions, true Or false, fill-in-the-blanks south from the P.O.: Three grocers, Leona Patterson's Fabric Box, The shuttered bank, the poolhall din and smoke, And this would have been a...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...evenings. Women made frequent visits with relatives, sometimes for several days at a time, and they carried handwork in order to keep their hands occupied during these visits. In southern...

Wichita newspaper

...method employed by the prejudiced south. . . Such tragedies are unlooked for and unexpected at the hands of western people where the hanging of horse thieves has proved about...