Southern Cultures back issues from March 2008:
Front porch.(nostalgia)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner's most famous line comes up a lot whenever people discuss the American South. The way some people interpret it, the idea seems to be that the future never happens down South; the region is so ...
Bottomland ghost: southern encounters and obsessions with the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Among birders in the South, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is a haunting presence whose status is debated at ornithological meetings, in popular media outlets and leading scientific journals, and on birding web sites such as the Ivory-bill Researchers Forum ....
The wildest show in the south the politics and poetics of the Angola prison rodeo and inmate arts festival.(ESSAY)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I entered the grounds of Louisiana State Penitentiary, I saw a maze of rawhide belts and purses, paintings reminiscent of a back aisle thrift store, and elaborate wooden objects that evoked the country crafts of my southern childhood. I passed a ...
HumaNatureScapes.(PHOTO ESSAY)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Wilderness Act of 1964 allowed Americans to enter certain lands, but it also urged them to make their visits brief and leave no mark. My photographs represent the relationship between nature and those traces of cultural objects or artifacts we leave in ...
On naive and sentimental poetry: Nostalgia, Sex, and the Souths of William Alexander Percy.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... "South! ... These stars I know! ... And south is Greece!" --William Alexander Percy, "Night Off Gallipoli" (1920) "We are homesick for 'the glory that was Greece.'" --Raymond Ganger to William Alexander Percy, 12 November 1921 [ILLUSTRATION ...
Mason-Dixon Lines: Riolama.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Riolama (After reading Hudson's "Green Mansions") There is a land beyond the lands you know,Circled by silver veils of woven rainAnd green, clear sunsets with the moon in towAnd woods and dark savannahs of wild grain. I have not wandered in the ...
Molasses-colored glasses: WPA and sundry sources on molasses and southern foodways.(Beyond Grits and Gravy)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Molasses has been one of the three Ms of the diet of southern common folks, along with meat (salt pork) and meal (corn meal). It has served as a baking ingredient, condiment, and cold remedy, and it was central to special-occasion meals in the South. We ...
Buffalo gals.(Fiction)(Short story)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her thirteenth year, the year she almost became popular in America, Alice learned some new words, or she learned some words newly. The first was bitch and it was unthinkable. No case could be made for comparing a woman to a dog. Still, the way the word ...
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil.(Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jewish Roots in Southern Soil A New History Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg Brandeis University Press, 2006 384 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, 329.95 In the introduction to ...
Toxic Drift.(Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Toxic Drift Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South By Pete Daniel Louisiana State University Press, 2005 209 pp. Cloth, $26.95 Pete Daniel has written valuable books on ...
The Nation's Region.(The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism )(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Nation's Region Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism By Leigh Anne Duck The University of Georgia Press, 2006 340 pp. Cloth, $39-95 Leigh Anne Duck's The Nation's Region: ...
Thomas Jefferson.(Thomas Jefferson: Author of America)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thomas Jefferson Author of America By Christopher Hitchens HarperCollins Publishers, 2005 188 pp. Cloth, $19.95 Christopher Hitchens, whose recent drift from the left has caused no little anxiety ...
All Out of Faith.(All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] All Out of Faith Southern Women on Spirituality Edited by Wendy Reed and Jennifer Home The University of Alabama Press, 2006 198 pp. Cloth, $29.95 When I speak with New Englanders or Californians ...
Minstrelsy and Murder.(Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835-1925 )(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Minstrelsy and Murder The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835-1925 By Andrew Silver Louisiana State University Press, 2006 224 pp. Cloth, $42.95 The cover art and title to Andrew Silver's Minstrelsy and ...