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

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

California Creek, North Carolina

...always seen it from the viewpoint of walking up there and looking at the mountains. I knew there was a road coming on line, but I had no concept of...

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...direct, with the new Visitor Center on the top, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Lucille Babbitt: "I don't think it was God's will that it be...

Little Creek, North Carolina

...Little Creek, which was removed for I-26, Little Creek, NC 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Grave diggers constructing new coffins for unidentified remains at the Woody Family Cemetery, Little...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...short, as there are additional long narrow strips pieced in on both shorter ends. Narcissa chose new materials for the visible front of the quilt and recycled fabric for the...

No Place

...Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt's lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do...