Tag: Landscape

Monuments for the Interim Twenty-Four Thousand Years

Monuments for the Interim Twenty-Four Thousand Years

Annie Simpson

This article considers the aesthetic and durational implications of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina (a largely hidden node in the American nuclear project, where 40 percent of the Cold War's plutonium was produced). As we come to understand the Anthropocene as a process-state at the edge of geo-history—or, in other words, an always "being-towards-death"—this article asks how a slippery (and often deceitful, in a white settler imaginary) relationship with time in the American South affects how we can imagine 20,000 years of living with a nuclear hangover. This sight- and site-based investigation looks at historical markers, nuclear semiotics, public sculpture, spatial and racial histories, and atomic ecologies to wonder how we are able, or unable, to perceive the radioactive leftovers of empire.

RV Landscapes

RV Landscapes

Joanna Welborn

A photo essay that documents RV communities in North Carolina.

The Spaces We Inherit

The Spaces We Inherit

Oliver Clasper
Here on Earth Now: Notes from the Field

Here on Earth Now: Notes from the Field

Grace Hale, photos by Emmet Gowin
Taming the Wild Side of Bonaventure

Taming the Wild Side of Bonaventure

William D. Bryan
Drawn to Water

Drawn to Water

Bryce Lankard
Front Porch: Fall 2001

Front Porch: Fall 2001

Harry L. Watson
Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in the South: A New Landscape of Memory

Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in the South: A New Landscape of Memory

Derek H. Alderman

Traditionally, public commemoration in the South has been devoted largely to remembering the region’s role in the Civil War and the mythic Old South plantation culture supposedly lost as a result of that conflict. These memories remain deeply ingrained in the southern landscape of monuments, museums, historical markers, and place names. Yet, African Americans who seek to make their own claim to the South and its history increasingly challenge Civil War-centered conceptions of the past.

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History by Anne Mitchell Whisnant (Review)

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History by Anne Mitchell Whisnant (Review)

Nancy J. Martin-Purdue
Native Ground

Native Ground

Rob McDonald
“It’s Easier to Pick a Tourist Than It Is a Bale of Cotton”: The Rise of Recreation on the Great Lakes of the South

“It’s Easier to Pick a Tourist Than It Is a Bale of Cotton”: The Rise of Recreation on the Great Lakes of the South

Ian Draves