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Southern Cultures
7.4 (Winter 2001)
Southern Cultures
7.3 (Fall 2001)
Southern Cultures
7.2 (Summer 2001)
Southern Cultures
7.1 (Spring 2001)
Southern Cultures
7.4 (Winter 2001)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“The South is neither radically different from the rest of the
United States nor exactly like it, but ‘southern’ and ‘American’
at the same time.”
Essays
Whatever Happened to the Search for Eric Rudolph?
by Cynthia Lewis
“‘CNN is Eric’s best friend. If it hadn’t
been for the media, Eric Rudolph would have been caught in the first two
days. The media’s the worst thing that ever happened to this case.
The worst thing.’”
Hamlet Rides among the Seminoles
by Robin O. Warren
“When William Forbes and his company of actors steamed out of
Savannah in May 1840, they were about to enter the Second Seminole War.
Before they had been in Florida for more than a full day, the actors were
ambushed by real-life Indians, lost two of their number, and had their
props and costumes sacked.”
The Contradictory South
by Sheldon Hackney
“The tension between individualism and organization is a central
theme of American history, a running argument between Clint Eastwood and
Bill Gates. It occurs in the South with a regional flavor.”
Up Beat Down South The Southern World of Britney Spears
by Gavin James Campbell
“The controversial stage outfits, she reassured us, ‘were
the kind of clothes we used to wear in Kentwood. It can be scorching during
the summer, so the barer the better!’”
Mason-Dixon Lines After Buying a Portrait of Robert
E. Lee at Arlington House
poetry by V. J. Kopp
“I realize now it was a trap, one he would have sensed in advance
. . .”
South Polls Lay My Burden of Southern History Down
by John Shelton Reed
“Southerners are at least as likely to agree as to disagree
that ‘it's important to remember our history, but the Civil War
doesn't mean much to me personally.’”
Books
Eric Larson's
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in
History
Patricia Bellis Bixel and Elizabeth Hayes Turner's
Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst
Casey Edward Greene and Shelly Henley Kelly, editors
Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm
reviewed by Jay Barnes
“In one wretched night of wind and water in September 1900,
Galveston endured a great hurricane that is still regarded as the deadliest
natural disaster ever known to strike American soil.”
John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney's
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the
Civil War
W. Todd Groce's
Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870
reviewed by Jan Davidson
“Their ancestors were almost as likely to have been Unionists
as Confederates, and if they were Confederates, about one in four deserted.”
Shelly Romalis's
Pistol Packin’ Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of
Folksong
reviewed by Patrick Huber
“She boasted that she was the inspiration for the 1943 smash
hit ‘Pistol Packin’ Mama’ written, she asserted, not
by Al Dexter but by her husband’s cousin to commemorate her own
handiness with a .38 Smith & Wesson.”
Southern Cultures
7.3 (Fall 2001)
Soil, Sand, and States of Mind
Letters to the Editor Not Your Oxford
American
“‘John Grisham sold out the South just like Hillary and
Bill Clinton did!’”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“On a recent road trip from Atlanta to Auburn, Alabama—once
the heartland of the land of cotton—I did not see a single cultivated
field and scarcely even a pasture. ”
Essays
The Taking of the Hatteras Light
by Jan DeBlieu
with photographs by Michael Halminski
“The taking of the Hatteras Light is a powerful statement about
our society’s reluctance to accept change and loss, and our refusal
to embrace the consequences of living in a world shaped by natural forces.”
“Welcome to Misery”
photographs by Dan Sears
“Sears has found the only region where misery is a state of
mind and a seaside dock, where a gravestone will mark both a lifetime
and a locality simply with a sentimental ‘here,’ and where
even horses know better than northerners how to avoid summer heat.”
“All Goes Back to the Earth”: The Poetry of Wendell Berry
by Henry Taylor
“‘We sell the world to buy fire . . . our way lighted
by burning men.’”
Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines
by Derek H. Alderman and Donna G’Segner Alderman
“Perhaps no other part of the natural environment is more closely
identified with the South than this invasive and fast growing vine.”
Southern Voices The Great Deluge
as told to Charles D. Thompson Jr.
with photographs by Rob Amberg
“We were behind one another praying to get out of that water.”
Mason-Dixon Lines All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends
to Repeat Itself and
Autumn’s Sidereal, November’s a Ball and Chain
two poems by Charles Wright
“Still, who knows where the soul goes . . . after the light
switch is turned off, who knows?”
Music Recordings When Somebody Loves You
reviews by Gavin James Campbell
“In a world where Faith Hill is considered country, it’s
nice to have Alan Jackson around to remind us of just why we began listening
to country in the first place.”
Books
Alan Feduccia, editor
Catesby's Birds of Colonial America
reviewed by T. Edward Nickens
“Catesby broke rank with other naturalists, including the professionally
trained Linnaeus, when he lambasted theories that birds hibernated in
hollow trees or dove into the bottom of lakes and stayed there during
the winter.”
Donald Edward Davis's
Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern
Appalachians
Daniel S. Pierce's
The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park
Margaret Lynn Brown's
The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains
reviewed by Frank G. Queen
“He catalogued the plants he didn’t step on, the friendly
people he met (he liked everybody, and everything--he devotes a couple
of pages to the excellent character of the rattlesnake), and the liquor
he didn’t drink.”
Daniel Patterson's
A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver
reviewed by Brooke Calton
“In the winter of 1831 Frankie Silver killed her husband Charlie
with a blow to the head from an axe.”
Al Burt's
The Tropic of Cracker
Janisse Ray's
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Rob Storter's
Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades
reviewed by Carolyn Kindell, K. C. Smith, and Andi Reynolds
“Her father locked the children and their mother in a back bedroom,
and only after several hours and pleadings of hunger from the family did
he allow Lee Ada to pick, with her eyes closed, a single package from
the freezer to be eaten uncooked, because ‘that’s the way
God says to feed the children.’”
Southern Cultures
7.2 (Summer 2001)
Letters to the Editors “The First
National Obnoxious People Survey”
“What's next--a Charles Manson retrospective?”
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Who could be freer than one of these stock-car racers, moving
easily and gloriously between the glamour of moonshining and the thrill
of roaring engines on dirt tracks, with plenty of hard living, hard partying,
and wild women at every stage?”
Essays
The Most Southern Sport on Earth
NASCAR and the Unions
by Dan Pierce
“‘I have a pistol and I know how to use it. I’ve
used it before.’”
Talking Tombstones
Living Graveyards of the South
photographs by Charlie Curtis
“Freezing time is a tricky science.”
Driving Miss Daisy
Southern Jewishness on the Big Screen
by Eliza Russi Lowen McGraw
“‘Now, Miss Daisy, somebody done bomb that temple back
yonder, and you know it.’”
The Raney Controversy
Clyde Edgerton’s Fight for Creative Freedom
by George Hovis
“‘There were a lot of people who supported Clyde, but
they just did not feel comfortable voicing any kind of support. There
was this element of fear.’”
Southern Voices A Position of Respect
The Basketball Coach Who Resisted Segregation
as told to Pamela Grundy by John B. McLendon Jr.
“One of the best ways to play the game is avoid confrontation.
The next is to make the adversary ridiculous.”
Mason-Dixon Lines “The Chinaberry Trees in Niggertown”
poetry by Andrew Hudgins
“The subtle yet significant distance established between the
speaker of this persona poem and its author asks us here at the beginning
of the 21st century whether much has changed.”
South Polls Forty Defining Moments of the Twentieth-century
South
by John Shelton Reed
“It will surprise no one to see that the two big stories of
the twentieth-century South are the transition from an agricultural to
an urban society and the transformation effected by the civil rights movement.”
Not Forgotten Call me a Pogophile, and We’ll Take
It Outside
by Bryan Giemza
“‘No shirt, no shoes, no service. . . . No guns.’”
Books
Calder Loth, editor
The Virginia Landmarks Register, Fourth Edition
reviewed by Henry Taylor
“He addressed the Vatican, suggesting that the Sistine Chapel
ceiling had been more dignified before Michelangelo came in there and
started mucking about with his scaffolding and his angst.”
Ken Breslauer's
Roadside Paradise
reviewed by Robert E. Snyder
“Miami’s Monkey Jungle reversed the traditional exhibit
format by placing humans inside protective walkways while primates ran
free.”
Michael McFee, editor
This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary N.C. Writers
reviewed by George Hovis
“‘For the artist to be unwilling to move, mentally or
spiritually or physically, out of the familiar is a sign that spiritual
timidity or poverty or decay has come upon him.’”
Lucinda H. MacKethan's
Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond
Allan Paul Speer with Janet Barton Speer
Sisters of Providence: The Search for God in the Frontier South
Laura Edwards's
Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
reviewed by Julia Ridley Smith
“The girls’ desire to leave a mark upon the world and
make themselves heard is plaintive and constant throughout their writing.”
Southern Cultures
7.1 (Spring 2001)
Cartoon “At Least That’s One
Confederate Memorial They Can’t Tear Down”
by Doug Marlette
Letters to the Editors The Dear John Letters
“Daddy said he wouldn’t go to church, so she shot him.”
Front Porch The John Shelton Reed Special Issue
by Harry L. Watson
“‘It ain’t bragging if you can prove it.’”
Essays
1001 More Things Everyone Should Know about the South
by Doris Betts
“Nobody enjoys getting his tongue extended far into his cheek
more than Reed, and few have such a reach.”
An Episcopalian Imagination
by Michael O’Brien
“It is the illusion of his style that Reed is a sort of good
old boy, sitting on his porch, swigging his whiskey, going out the back
to shoot hapless mammals.”
“Knock Us Out, John!”
by James C. Cobb
“The object of John’s climb is what is presumed to be
a coon nestled among the giant sweet gum’s topmost branches.”
The Well Wrought “Durn”
A Postmodern Writer in the Southern World
by Anne Goodwyn Jones
“‘Southerners can’t grasp anything that isn’t
couched in a Br’er Rabbit tale. They got cornmeal mush for brains.’”
Rethinking Southern History
by David L. Carlton
“Reed burst on the southern scene in 1972 as a contrarian, and,
as we know, he has remained very much a contrarian to this day.”
The Promise of a Sociology of the South
by Larry J. Griffin
“Even as he turned to a form of largely conservative cultural
commentary on all sorts of things, Reed retained a keen sociological consciousness.”
Interview Surveying the South: A Conversation with John
Shelton Reed
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
“I don’t have much patience with folks who say the Civil
War was not about slavery.”
Music Recordings Loud, Fast, & Out of Control
by John Shelton Reed
“One reason baby-boomers are despised by their elders is that
they think they’re the first generation to have experienced everything.”
South Polls The Twenty Most Influential Southerners
of the Twentieth Century
by John Shelton Reed
“Unknown saints will have to get their reward in heaven, as
usual.”
Not Forgotten If I'd Just Waked Up From a Thirty-six-year
Sleep
by John Shelton Reed
“‘Welcome to the South--now leave your daughter and go
home.’”
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