Recently added articles from Southern Cultures:
Front porch.(Southern memory)
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I once listened attentively as a native New Yorker explained the South to some newcomers more recent than he. "What made this place possible was the invention of air conditioning," he pronounced. "Before that, nobody could live here." Now I ...
Constructing the cause, bridging the divide: Lee's Tomb at Washington's College.(Robert E. Lee)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As Robert E. Lee lay dying on the morning of October 12, 1870, some 16,000 Union soldiers moldered in their graves outside the front doors of Arlington House. The Lees' beloved family home had been passed down to them from George Washington Parke Custis, ...
Keeping sin from sacred spaces: southern evangelicals and the socio-legal control of alcohol, 1865-1915.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, I was struck by the close proximity of churches and nightclubs, a good number within a few feet of each other and, in a few spectacular cases, bars operating out of barely reconstructed houses of worship. Having lived in the ...
Memorial observances.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I was growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the most powerful objects in that small, genteel, racially segregated southern city was the great equestrian figure of John Hunt Morgan at the courthouse square. I didn't know much about the famed ...
Lessons of Core Sound workboats.(Core Sound, North Carolina)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Core Sound is a shallow body of water in eastern North Carolina that carries the Core Sound National Seashore on its eastern shoulder and the Carteret County peninsula on its west. Between Beaufort, the mainland town that has prettied itself up over recent ...
On Being Asked to Pray for a Van.(Mason-Dixon Lines)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2009; ... <Pre> On Being Asked to Pray for a Van My evangelical brethren have let me know,via the quarterly fundraising letter,that they can't get the gospel aroundbecause their van has given up the ghost.God in the machine, help them.I lift up their carburetor and ...
Snapper.(Mason-Dixon Lines)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Snapper It's a kind of monster,cobbled from parts of other creatures--beak of a raptor,clawed feet of a burrowing animal,tail of a croc.Its armor medieval, breast plate and back plate,the smeared heraldry praises mud and bottom muck.You're ...
Chitlin function.(Beyond Grits and Gravy)(chitterlings)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... "I'll lug these guts into the neighbor room ..." --Hamlet 3.4.212 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chitlins, as all the world knows, are guts--specifically, the small intestines of pigs, cleaned and scrubbed through several changes of cold water with salt and ...
Privy thoughts.(Not Forgotten)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I flushed with excitement. After generations of anticipation, the house finally had a functioning toilet. Naomi and I had worked toward this moment for six of our nine years of marriage--ever since my grandparents' old farmhouse in Carroll ...
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall University of North Carolina Press 248 pp. Cloth, $34.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Alex Haley's Roots appeared in 1976 it set off a storm of ...
Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Super-Scenic Motorway A Blue Ridge Parkway History By Anne Mitchell Whisnant University of North Carolina Press 434 pp. Cloth, $34.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anne Mitchell Whisnant begins her book with her own memories and early experiences of ...