Tag: Interviews

Studio Visit: Phil Freelon and Pierce Freelon

Studio Visit: Phil Freelon and Pierce Freelon

North Carolina Arts Council
“We’ve Got to Be Awful Careful or We’re Going to Lose It”

“We’ve Got to Be Awful Careful or We’re Going to Lose It”

Anna Hamilton
Building a Broom by Feel: Jim Shaffer

Building a Broom by Feel: Jim Shaffer

Emily Hilliard

Jim Shaffer's shop is dusty and smells like a horse stable—a comforting olfactory association that I suddenly realize has less to do with horses than with the rolled and bundled straw I see stacked high along the walls. Though the pole barn that houses Shaffer's Charleston Broom and Mop Company is just a few miles from the capital city of Charleston, West Virginia, the unincorporated area where it sits along Davis Creek in Loudendale is a wooded, quiet, and close-knit community.

The King of the Birds

The King of the Birds

Southern Cultures
“My Idol Was Langston Hughes”: The Poet, the Renaissance, and Their Enduring Influence

“My Idol Was Langston Hughes”: The Poet, the Renaissance, and Their Enduring Influence

From a talk delivered by Margaret Walker Alexander, edited and introduced by William R. Ferris
Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women’s Movement

Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women’s Movement

Compiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. Cline
Southern Voices

Southern Voices

Southern Cultures
Clark and Pritchett: A Comparison of Two Notorious Southern Lawmen

Clark and Pritchett: A Comparison of Two Notorious Southern Lawmen

James Reston Jr.
The Necessity of a Show Like This

The Necessity of a Show Like This

Trevor Schoonmaker, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and Jeff Whetstone
“Those little color snapshots”: William Christenberry

“Those little color snapshots”: William Christenberry

William Christenberry interviewed by William R. Ferris
I Never Believed in the Perfect Mother

I Never Believed in the Perfect Mother

Dorothy Allison, with artwork by Susan Harbage Page
The Life of a Southerner (in Drawings): An Interview with Jesse Whitaker

The Life of a Southerner (in Drawings): An Interview with Jesse Whitaker

Gretchen Givens