Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...City nature has no place in a "nature preserve." At a point where an urban waterway should be most visible, even celebrated, the comedy of hide-and-seek intensifies. A waterway (now...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...of her neighbors put it, DDT was destroying a way of life, as it made small farms unsustainable and eroded the good health and cooperative spirit that were the backbone...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...daily transit. Most early amusement parks offered similar attractions like the Ferris Wheel, Giant Swing, Shoot-the-Chutes, or Scenic Railway. In addition, owners marketed their operations in ways that attempted to...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...addition, the "Dixie Highway," a major roadway running between the South and the Midwest, from Florida to Chicago, became increasingly popular and brought a stream of motorists through the area....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...their marriages and the journeys they took in two ways. In one way, these scales of action are measurable, covering defined spaces and quantifiable distances in feet above sea level...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...away from more centrally-located middle class Anglo neighborhoods, and a new expressway threatened central western neighborhoods. The SOS Alliance sought to slow what they perceived to be rampant and environmentally...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...a safe means of exiting and entering the roadway. The location of street corner pickup sites was subject to change depending upon a number of factors including city regulations, police...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...distinctive is the way in which musicians blended vernacular and popular musical elements. The blues musicians Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee from 1969 until the early 1980s circulated on...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Superheroes fight evil. To resist the way the market strips away every meaning but money, maybe you just have to refuse to play.15Pylon, Pylon Live (Atlanta, GA: Chunklet Industries, 2016);...