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

Sweep

The two Garnett brothers who run the Shell station here, who are working separately just now, one hunched under the rear axle of Skippy Smith's Peterbilt tractor, the other humming...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...twelve dull movements of a slow dance. Something moves the ants for a while. Something moves you on. The sky is terribly the same, full of small engines, birdsong, momentary...

Jarvis Branch, North Carolina

Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...

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...

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

...no evidence of an attempt to coordinate the colors between the old and new parts of the quilt. The eight blocks are arranged unevenly around the center star, and the...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...daughter's marriage by making a shopping excursion to Charleston to buy special items such as fabric for a wedding quilt. According to family oral tradition, Samuel Snoddy also made such...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...track line from the corner of Broad and Marietta streets along Broad street to Houston, thence to Hillard and to Highland avenue and to Edgewood. This line was subsequently extended...

Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)

...throng Like an astronaut shooting into space. Micah was a man who spoke against Oppression Crying: Woe to you Workers on Iniquity! Crying: Woe to you doers of violence! Crying:...

Failed Memory Exercise

...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...

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...