Mars Hill, North Carolina
New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...advertised his cleaning and repair service: "Bring in your sewing machines and have them made good as new." The fabric on the back of the Tulip quilt is a fine...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...Snoddy Coan's) crazy quilts incorporates a piece of unfinished patchwork made by her mother, according to the label, "during the Civil War." The center of the quilt is a large...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Mary Snoddy Black date from this period; she inherited these from her mother's family, the Bensons. On October 5, 1853, Samuel Miller Snoddy, age thirty-seven, a farmer and major in...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...in rapid succession..." (Charles Daniel. "Street Railways" Atlanta Constitution, (Sept 30, 1894) p. 14) Clipping: "In spite of the general depression which has everywhere existed, during the last few months,...
Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)
...they shall not be remembered in the Book of Life. Micah was a man. Published in Prophet's for a New Day Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...they haunt bronze water cannons, bronze children washed in sodium light. They rake the teeth of cut-steel pinschers, praying change from their metal tongues. One lies beneath a swayback boy...
Failed Memory Exercise
...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...
Brass Knuckles
Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...
The Dirt Eaters
Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...