Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Oil on the Chandeleur Islands from a plane, Off the coast of Louisiana, 2010
I-26 looking west at Buckner Gap, Madison County, North Carolina, 2008
Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia
John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D....
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
..."sheetings, drills and print cloths, including red fancy bandanas used by railroad men." [Source: Michael Leonard, Our Heritage: A Community History of Spartanburg County (Spartanburg: Band & White, 1986), p....
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012); Barry Mazor, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the...
Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
Boll Weevil Monument, Enterprise, Alabama, 2010
The historical marker accompanying the statue reads: Boll Weevil Monument December 11, 1919 In profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the Herald of Prosperity...
When life gives you oil spills, Mobile, Alabama, 2010