An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...pleasure that shape all those sketchy spaces beyond more familiar queer metropoles such as New York and San Francisco. A useful critical pairing would be Scott Herring's work on the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...1990s, Atlanta was bested by only San Francisco as a magnet for college educated workers in the coveted twenty-five to thirty-four age bracket. Recent numbers indicate that the region's advantage...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“My dad is from Prague and my mom from Puerto Rico,” “I am from Jutiapa, El Progresso, Guatemala!” The lists of names and places turn into longer narratives of immigration....
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...United States free of debt, Francisco decided not to pay a coyote (or a "pollero" as some border crossers call them) to help him get from Santa Cruz, Guatemala to...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...plants. Sand accretion – Net accumulation of sand in an area, whether through longshore drift, wind transport, or storm waves; can result in a shoreline "migrating" seaward. Sandbar – Deposit of...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...most likely matches are as follows: The man Sandy, listed as "over 50" in the 1848 inventory, could be the eighteen month old Sandy, son of Ann, listed in 1799...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...