The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...after that, you forget that that same person might want a sandwich too, might want a bowl of cereal, might like watching “Charlie's Angels,” might prefer orange to red. [laughter]...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...war, the number of cities and towns with local radio service doubled.15Ibid. AM 1450 WLAF in LaFollette, Tennessee, took to the airwaves in 1953 and, for the first time, provided...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...website of the Durham, North Carolina, non-profit NEEM (Natural Environment Ecological Management) features a narrative sketch that labels the rise of organic garden collectives in Cuban cities "the urban agriculture...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...pressed his back to the wall, crying out in a deep voice: "'Wretches! What do you want?' "'We want to have a talk with you,' rejoined one of them, firing...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...been removed. Photographers visiting for the first time were shocked to see how much remained to be done. Those who had visited before could detect small differences, with activities of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Sacred Harp). Visiting singers disseminated glowing email testimonials on the listserv describing their first visit to Hoboken. The Lees, in turn, have prompted the moniker “Hoboken slow” as a tempo...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Carolyn wrote "Cheers Everybody!" in the mid-eighties, she wanted to document and comment on her lived experience. As she relates in the 1989 preface to the second edition of her...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...been the most visited site in the entire national park system. In recent years, more than eighteen million visitors have traveled parts of the Parkway every year."1Anne Mitchell Whisnant, "About...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...him why he'd chosen the tracks he did. Asim replied, "I wanted to get loud tonight. A lot of stuff has happened this week. I wanted to get loud." Asim's...