Southern Cultures e-bog

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R. Neal"e;One of the challengesand, simultaneously, deep pleasuresof studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work."e;Rewriting ElizabethA Life Lost (and Found) in the Annals of Bryce Mental Hospitalby Lindsay Byron"e;Her name was never to be spoken. Even upon the lips and within the hearts of her own children, remembrance was forbidden. Silence nearly erased her from history."e;Ghosts, Wreckers, and Rotten TiesThe 1891 Train Wreck at Bostian's Bridgeby Scott Huffard"e;When train number nine on the Western North Carolina Railroad tumbled off Bostian's Bridge in 1891, it ignited a media frenzy, as well as a firestorm of outrage, a detailed investigation, a compelling mystery, and a series of unanswered questions."e;Photo EssayTeenage Pastimeby Natalie Minik"e;When the unlimited energy of adolescence comes to bear on the limited experience of childhood, the results often swing toward one of two polesan enthusiastic confirmation of the culture a child grew into or a bold rejection of the culture they grew out of."e;"e;The Best Notes Made the Most Votes"e;W. C. Handy, E. H. Crump, and Black Music as Politicsby Mark A. Johnson"e;'Feet commenced to pat. A moment later there was dancing on the sidewalks below. Hands went into the air, bodies swayed like the reeds on the banks of the Congo.'"e;Taking Strong Drinkby Bill Koon"e;Some devout Baptists complained that there was too much booze in a mini bottle for one drink; the rest of us complained that there wasn't enough."e;South PollsPartisan Change in Southern State Legislatures, 19532013by Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts"e;At mid-century, the South had no Republican senators and only two Republicans in the 105-person southern House delegation. By 2000, [both] delegations were majority Republican."e;Beyond Grits and GravyMaggie and BuckCoal Camps, Cabbage Rolls, and Community in Appalachiaby Donna Tolley Corriher"e;Maggie's neighbor-women saw a young woman just like themselves, with children to feed, trying to build a life, and so they helped her, unquestioning in recognition that she would help them in return. This was so."e;Not ForgottenWinning Friends and Influencing Dead Peopleby JL Strickland"e;Joe cackled fiendishly, addressing Vernon through the closed lid. 'Who's got the last laugh now, big boy?'"e;MasonDixon LinesApple Slicespoetry by Todd Boss"e;. . . flavored of tin fromthe lip of the cupof a dented thermospassed between us"e;BooksElaine Neil OrrA Different Sun: A Novel of Africareviewed by Fred HobsonJennifer Rae GreesonOur South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literaturereviewed by Michael McCollumAngela C. HalfacreA Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountryreviewed by Brian GrabbatinAbout the Contributors