Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...far-off places rather than the local singing in an isolated area where most participants are related by blood or marriage” (page 28). I use the term “Sacred Harp network,” after...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Plyler farm: cow pasture, vegetable garden, fruit trees, chicken coops, open feed boxes and water pans, clothes and bedding hung out on the line, and everything and everyone in the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...one year teaching appointments, adjuncting for low pay, no health benefits, and, for a while, a job that was academic piece work on the assembly line, where I was paid...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...was able to get extraordinary shots: the fifteen-year-old walks down the street and a fifty-year-old man almost assaults him. And there's great patience and quiet, controlled pacing that seems true...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
... Moreover, the building-as-gallery pays homage to Atlanta’s notorious weather. The building features aluminum panels against a bright yellow and green backdrop that resembles the pollen that coats the city each Spring,...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...rotating selection on our home page’s nameplate. We selected these images from the newly digitized Library of Congress collection of Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs. This collection...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...now. I'd hate to leave them. I feel a responsibility there for my parents, and for his parents. That old cemetery, that's another reason not to. My niece is buried...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...other siblings, had a famously peripatetic and cosmopolitan childhood. In her case, Allegheny was followed by family sojourns in New York City, Vienna, Paris, and Oakland, California, where (as she...