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Another Kind of Southern Pride: What we can all learn from the town of Vicco, KY
Facebook and Twitter were all aflutter this week about Vicco, Kentucky, thanks to a wonderful segment on The Colbert Report about “People Who Are Destroying America.” The segment zeroed in on Mayor...
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When You’re Lookin’ at Her, You’re Lookin’ at History
Note: This blog post first appeared on the UNC Press Blog on March 21, 2011. I post it here in honor of Loretta Lynn who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom this past week. Loretta Lynn,...
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Faith and Conviction in Southern Appalachia: The Death of a Snake-Handling...
Pastor Jamie Coots at his church in Middleboro, KY. (Photo credit: National Geographic) Just this past weekend the news came down from the hills of Kentucky that Jamie Coots, the pastor of a...
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Pop Culture’s Southern Gentleman
This winter Atlanta, (and the South more broadly), got skewered in the media when a snowfall of just two inches snarled traffic on the interstate highways that cut through the heart of the city,...
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Appalachia, the American South and Urban Condescension
“The smudge of the country. . .” It happened again last week. Another journalist took a swipe at my beloved Appalachia. Yet it’s difficult to stand tall against national media outlets like the New...
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Looking at Appalachia: Fifty years after the War on Poverty
LBJ with the Fletcher family of Inez, KY. During his State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans to address the nation’s poverty, which then hovered at a...
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Portraits of Aunt Jemima in Black and Blackface
One of the most iconic advertising images of the twentieth century is Aunt Jemima, and recently the heirs of Nancy Green and Anna Harrington, just two of the women whose portraits were used as the...
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Southern Comfort’s Homecoming
Last week Kentucky-based Brown-Forman Corporation, which owns the Jack Daniels and Woodford Reserve brands, announced it is selling the Southern Comfort brand to the New Orleans-based Sazerac Company....
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