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the newsletter of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture • Summer 2010 the university of mississippi New Books by Southern Studies Faculty and Staff

our new books, all of them collab- word by Alton Brown. This work brings orative projects, are coming out together the recipes and ideas of thou- Fby Center faculty and friends in sands of people whose work and creativ- the next six months. In July, Faulkner’s ity provide the background for those Sexualities, edited by Annette Trefzer recipes. Also in the fall, the University and Ann Abadie, was published by the of North Carolina Press will publish University Press of Mississippi. Based Volume 16, Sports and Recreation, of The on the papers at the 2007 Faulkner and New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Yoknapatawpha Conference, the book series with, as always, Charles Reagan presents a range of engaging ways to Wilson as general editor and Jimmy study, as Trefzer writes in the introduc- Thomas as managing editor. This vol- tion, “the sexuality of the author and the ume, edited by Harvey Jackson, revises sexuality of his texts.” In October, The and expands the original encyclopedia’s Southern Foodways Alliance Community section in numerous ways, and readers Cookbook hits shelves, coedited by Sara will first notice its dramatic cover pho- Roahen and John T. Edge, with a fore- tograph. And at the end of the year,

Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee’s edited collection, American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary, will come out in the New Southern Studies Series published by the University of Georgia Press. The introduction and essays will offer the latest and best ways to think about films made about the American South. By addressing literature, sexualities, sports and recreation, foodways, community, film, and imagination, the four books offer a way to start thinking about the range of work going on by the Center and its many friends. For more information about these books, see page 5.

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The season-ending episode of Tremé, the 2010 television series about Published Quarterly by the neighborhood in New Orleans, showed an English professor reading Walker The Center for the Study of Southern Culture Percy’s The Moviegoer, a novel whose main character sees movies as more real and The University of Mississippi meaningful than the rest of his life. This kind of Southern cultural funhouse mir- Telephone: 662-915-5993 ror, with images bouncing from fiction to the movies to television, makes me think Fax: 662-915-5814 E-mail: [email protected] about the various roles the media play in what we do here at the Center. www.olemiss.edu/depts/south Sometimes it seems that the Center and its alumni, students, staff, and faculty are in the news every day. Just this summer, we were able to cheer for alumna Caroline IN THIS ISSUE Herring and her appearance on Prairie Home Companion and for an impressive fea- Summer 2010 ture on alumnus and SFA filmmaker Joe York in The Atlantic. We cheer also for the 1 New Books by Southern Studies New York Times story that included a link to a student-made film from Southern Faculty and Staff Studies 534 and for the Chronicle of Higher Education story that criticized the direc- 2 Director’s Column tions of higher education but celebrated the University of Mississippi and especially 3 Living Blues News the Center. We read John T. Edge’s foodways pieces in the New York Times and have 4 Green & Brown Bag Talks: Fall 2010 begun listening to Sounds of the South, the Center-produced radio series airing on the 4 Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule stations of Mississippi Public Broadcasting. 5 Walter Anderson and World Literature All of those stories and programs reflect something important about what we want 6 Southern Studies Graduates and Awards to do in Southern Studies. Showing the range of Southern music and her ability 7 Alum Caroline Herring Appears on Prairie Home Companion to make something new from older material, on Prairie Home Companion Caroline 7 Alum Camp Best on Mascot Committee Herring sang a blues song, a gospel duet with Garrison Keillor, a country song from the 7 Sounds of the South on Public Radio Carter Family, and an original song about the artist Walter Anderson. The Sounds of 8 SST Students and Alums Engaged in the South series likewise tells stories of old and new Southern musicians both famous Oral History and Other Documentary and obscure. The Atlantic praised Joe York’s films for allowing their subjects to tell their Projects own stories, and one could say the same about the film students Meghan Leonard, 10 Mark Your Calendars! Eric Griffis, and Tyler Keith made about the Brown family’s dairy farm in Oxford. 11 Center’s Old Federal Road Project The Chronicle piece mentioned the work done under Chancellor Emeritus Robert Award Khayat: “Under his leadership the university reached into its past for different pieces 12 New Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series of the state’s history. Think Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams. 13 Field School on Religious Music Ole Miss has a Center for the Study of Southern Culture that focuses on the art, lit- 14 F&Y 2011: “Faulkner and Geography” 14 Southern American Studies Meeting erature, music, and food of the region, black and white. Indeed, of all the flagship col- 14 Eudora Welty Awards leges we have visited, we have found Ole Miss the most appealing.” 15 Teaching in the Mississippi Delta While we applaud the media, we are also studying it. Thinking broadly about 16 Margaret Walker Alexander Center Southern Studies and the media, we should note that the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 17 Reading the South: Reviews & Notes Conference this year was on “Faulkner and Film,” that Katie McKee and Deborah 22 Burke’s Book Store, South’s Oldest Barker’s University of Georgia Press collection on film in the South is coming out 23 Southern Foodways Alliance News early in 2011, and that the Media volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 26 MIAL Awards Gala series will go to the University of North Carolina Press this summer. 27 Southern Literary Trail Keeping up with the news through the media will almost certainly affect how and 28 2010 F&Y: “Faulkner and Film” what we study. The South is in the news, on the Internet, on television, in the mov- 29 2010 Faulkner Fringe Festival ies, every second. We watch news about the Gulf oil spill, its damage, and efforts to 30 Contributors address it, and the underwater footage of the spill itself is one of the most frequently 31 Tennessee Williams Festivities viewed sites on the Internet. Southern politicians seem always capable of making 32 Southern Culture Catalog Items the news, often for reasons they did not plan and would like to forget. And today’s 36 Address Section/Mailing List Form/ most powerful political figure from the South is likely Michelle Obama, and her ef- Friends Information and Form forts to encourage healthier eating have captured media attention. REGISTER STAFF It is no surprise that the South produces much of the country’s best music and con- Editor: Ann J. Abadie tinues to be a popular setting for movies. But it is notable that after several years of Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee relative neglect on television, the South has become the setting for some significant Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth television programs. The most watched television program in American history was Editorial Assistant: Sally Cassady Lyon the 2010 Super Bowl, and its only unique feature was the unlikely participation of Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group the New Orleans Saints. Louisiana is the setting for two new and unique television programs. Since 2008, True Blood has been the South’s show about vampires, and The University complies with all applicable laws regard- ing affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its ac- even if its recipe for plot development (when things get slow, just add werewolves) tivities and programs and does not discriminate against isn’t to my taste, it is an intriguing effort to mix conventional Southern images, anyone protected by law because of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or status as a veteran themes, and accents with a relentless series of surprises. Even more recently, Tremé or disabled veteran. offers a fascinating study of post-Katrina characters, all of them following their own

Page 2 Summer 2010 The Southern Register passions, many of them involving music, food, rebuilding, and even the literature of Walker Percy. The television and movie Living Blues efforts of Atlanta’s Tyler Perry and the comic faux conserva- tism of South Carolina’s Steven Colbert raise many questions about region, respectability and morality, religion, family, pol- Celebrates Its 40th itics, and more. At the Center, what are our jobs? Sometimes our job is to Anniversary with a follow the media, studying things with a depth that many media portrayals, moving so quickly, do not have. The issues Special Collector’s raised by the oil spill should be at the heart of thinking about the recent South. Did the region give away too much to en- tice businesses to invest in the region, and how do we search Issue for and define alternatives? How do Southern governments, In August Living Blues so long committed to low spending and so long suspicious of publishes its special 40th federal authority, deal with a solution that seems to need na- anniversary edition of tional and international responses? What will be the politics, the magazine. Highlights the economics, the sociology, even the literature and music include a number of in- and religion, of the oil spill? And how do we tell the stories terviews with blues mu- of individuals and small groups while also analyzing stories of sicians who have graced global forces? the cover of Living Blues Sometimes our job is to delve deeply into stories not be- throughout its 40-year ing covered. There is considerable media coverage of people history, including Irma who fish for a living and the challenge to their way of life. But Thomas, Eddie Kirkland, Southern Studies can also study people in the vacation indus- Mojo Buford, and Jimmy tries, people who choose the South for its beach towns, and Dawkins. Additionally, people far from the Gulf whose lives will feel the effects of the editor Brett Bonner reflects on the past 10 years of the maga- oil spill. We can help broaden the definitions of Southern pol- zine and long-time writer Jim DeKoster completes his four- itics beyond those who are most often in the news, and we can decade look at the best CDs from 2000–2010. Don’t miss study issues that receive relatively little media attention. what is sure to become a collector’s item! Sometimes our job can include the analysis of media, study- In other news, Living Blues teamed with Dominican ing how and why certain topics dominate imagery and dis- University in River Forest, Illinois, on June 9 and 10 to cussion. In Southern Studies classes, students and faculty fre- present Blues and the Spirit II: A Symposium on Chicago quently raise questions about media images, who makes them, Blues and Gospel Music Commemorating the Centennial how correct or incorrect they may be, and what political and of Howlin’ Wolf’s Birth and the 40th Anniversary of Living other purposes they serve. We benefit from the journalists who Blues Magazine. become Southern Studies students and the students who be- On Wednesday evening a panel discussed Howlin’ Wolf’s come journalists. Surely Southern Studies faculty will be read- legacy. The panel included, among others, rapper Chuck D ing student papers on oil spill coverage and Tremé and Madea and Chicago musicians Bob Stroger, Hubert Sumlin, Jody and True Blood as they have read them on iconic places and Williams, Eddie C. Campbell, and Eddie Shaw. A spirited characters from past generations. jam session followed featuring many of Wolf’s sidemen. Sometimes our job is to make media. As it should, the The following day, Karen M. Wilson delivered her keynote Center, often in continuing partnerships with our friends at address, “Dese All My Fader’s Children: How Spirituality Media and Documentary Projects, has projects on the Web, Was Supposedly Shaved Off the Blues.” Chuck D followed on film, on the radio, in Living Blues magazine, and—happy to with his keynote, “Blues, Rap and Race.” Later that eve- say—in old-time media like books and talking. More projects ning a bus shuttled conference attendees to Millennium are under discussion and under way. And of course, sometimes Park in downtown Chicago for an evening of music featur- our job as an academic institution is to think and write about ing Mali musician Bassekou Kouyate, Otis Taylor, and oth- things outside the rhythms of the media. If there is a negative ers. The symposium concluded with a show-stopping fina- side about today’s media, it is certainly its unending demands le by Sharon Lewis and Texas Fire at the legendary Rosa’s on time and attention, and perhaps sometimes its standards Lounge. Stay tuned to www.livingblues.com for informa- for judging importance. Sometimes we feel we’re not doing tion on next year’s Blues Today! Symposium. our jobs unless we fill every minute with the technologically Living Blues magazine is available at many bookstores sophisticated spreading of information and then measure our throughout the country or you can subscribe to Living Blues success with numbers of viewers, followers, fans, friends, and for only $25.95 by visiting www.livingblues.com or calling hits. So, while we try to communicate through as many media 662-915-5742. You may request a sample copy of the maga- as we can, we also reserve some effort for work that, like the zine by e-mailing [email protected]. novels of Walker Percy, may not be so media friendly. Mark Camarigg Ted Ownby

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The University of Mississippi September 1 “Service and Sustainability in the Lafayette County/Oxford/ Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series University Community” Jim Morrison, Director of Fall Semester 2010 Strategic Planning and Campus The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday Sustainability at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular academic year. GREEN sessions, sponsored with 8 “Mississippi Women’s Project” Strategic Planning and Campus Sustainability, are on the first Elizabeth Payne, Professor of Wednesday of each month. History Martha Swain, History Professor Emerita, Texas Woman’s October November University and Professor of 6 “The New Deal in the Florida 3 “Green Living for Everyday History, Mississippi State Panhandle and Mississippi People: Small Changes towards a University Gulf Coast: An Environmental More Sustainable Life” Perspective” Ross Haenfler, Associate Professor 15 “Editing New Academic Journals Robert Krause, Graduate of Sociology on the South: Native South and Assistant and Curator, Walton- Global South” Young House, University Museum 10 “Between Party and Principle: Adetayo Alabi, Associate and Historic Houses James Eastland, the Democratic Professor of English and Editor of Tradition, and the Southern Way Global South 13 “Old School Blues” of Life” Robbie Ethridge, Professor of Bernie Pearl, Musician and Disc Maarten Zwiers, PhD Student, Anthropology and Editor of Jockey (first all-blues DJ on FM University of Groningen, Native South radio in Los Angeles) Netherlands

22 “The Bravado of the Black New 20 “Traveling the Mississippi Leg of 17 “The Crawl of an Arthritic South: Intersections of Race, the BBQ Trail” Turtle: Race, Progress, and Class, Politics, and Culture Amy Evans Streeter, Southern Freedom in North Carolina” in Post–Civil Rights Atlanta, Foodways Alliance Oral Historian Charles McKinney, Assistant Georgia” Meghan Leonard, Southern Professor of History, Rhodes Maurice Hobson, Assistant Foodways Alliance Intern and College, Memphis, Tennessee Professor of History and African Southern Studies Graduate American Studies Student December 1 “Southern Place in Southern 29 “Oxford as the ‘Jumping-off 27 “Poverty and the Rural South: Space” Place’: Making the Film Where I Making a Difference” Andy Harper, Environmental Begin” Ben Guest, Program Manager, Historian and Director Melanie Addington, Staff Writer, Mississippi Teacher Corps of University Media and Oxford Eagle; Codirector, Oxford Austin Walker, Mississippi Teacher Documentary Projects Film Festival Corps, Hollandale Public Schools

August 16–October 15, 2010 Town and Country: New Color Photographs David Wharton October 18–November 19, 2010 Taco Trucks and Crepes Trailers: Modern Texas Foodways Photographs from Austin and Houston Exhibition Schedule Angie Bennett Mosier The Gammill Gallery, located in Barnard Observatory, is November 22, 2010–March 31, 2011 open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., except Florida Cowboys for University holidays. Telephone: 662-915-5993. Bob Stone

Page 4 Summer 2010 The Southern Register continued from 1 Library Faulkner’s Sexualities: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, 2007. The complex sexual tensions and trappings in the Nobel Laureate’s work are examined in essays by John N. Duvall, Kristin Fujie, Caroline Garnier, Jamie Harker, Catherine Gunther Exhibition Kodat, Peter Lurie, Deborah E. McDowell, Gary Richards, Michael Wainwright, and Michael Zeitlin. Edited by the Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: on Walter University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 224 pages. Printed casebinding $55.00. E-book $55.00. Available now. Anderson The exhibition Walter Anderson and The Southern Foodways Alliance World Literature remains on display Community Cookbook. This collec- at the University of Mississippi J. D. tion of more than 170 tested rec- Williams Library. Curated by the art- ipes from cookbooks sold to sup- ist’s son John Anderson, it features 85 port local organizations through- prints. In addition to the complete al- out the South and the stories that phabet series, the exhibition includes accompany the recipes reflect the illustrations to accompany the text of foodways and collective identity of such classics as Don Quixote, Paradise Southerners of myriad ethnicities Lost, Legends of Charlemagne, and the and origins. Edited by Sara Roahen Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as and John T. Edge, written, collab- scenes from beloved fairy tales like oratively, by Sheri Castle, Timothy Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, C. Davis, April McGreger, Angie and Puss and Boots. Mosier, and Fred Sauceman, the book is divided into 12 chapters that represent the region’s iconic foods, from “Gravy” and “Garden Goods” to “Yardbird” and “Pig.” Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 304 pages, 65 black-and-white and 190 color photos and images, 20 maps. Flexibind $22.95. Available in October.

Sports and Recreation, the 16th volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, edited by Harvey H. Jackson III and Charles Reagan Wilson, contains 74 thematic essays that explore the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual (pool checkers and fireballing). In 78 topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures (including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways Southerners relax, pass time, The library has also created an on- celebrate, let lose, and have fun. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, line subject guide to accompany the 2011. 368 pages, 31 illustrations. Cloth $45.00. $22.95. Available in December. exhibit at http://apollo.lib.olemiss.edu/ center/subject_guide/anderson/in- American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary. Edited by Deborah Barker and Kathryn tro. It includes lists of publications on McKee with essays by 14 contributors, among them Melanie R. Benson, Leigh Anne the life and work of Walter Anderson, Duck, Tara McPherson, Sharon Monteith, Riché Richardson, and Jay Watson, this other online resources, and books il- collection examines aspects of the Southern imaginary in American cinema and of- lustrated by Anderson that appear in fers fresh insights into the evolving field of Southern film studies. Ranging from the the exhibition. The subject guide also silent era to the present and considering Hollywood movies, documentaries, and in- features an essay by the curator. dependent films, the contributors incorporate the latest scholarship in a range of dis- The exhibition was sponsored in ciplines. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 384 pages. Paper $24.95. Cloth conjunction with the 16th annu- $69.95. E-book $69.95. Available in January. al Oxford Conference for the Book, which on March 26, 2009, presented four sessions on the role of books CSSC SOCIAL MEDIA! in Walter Anderson’s life and art. The Center has a Facebook page. Join us at Southern Studies at Ole Miss for Films of these sessions are posted on news about events, publications, alumni, job opportunities, and more. Search for the Center’s Web site, www.olemiss. “Southern Studies at Ole Miss” and join the group. edu/depts/south.

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 5 Southern Studies Graduates and Awards Gray Award David Wharton Emily Haadsma, “Should I Stay or Should I Go: The Centrifugal Force of Home-Place in the Lives of 20th- Century Country Musicians”

Coterie Award Katherine Watson, “‘Where I Keep All My Yesterdays’: Montgomery Gentry’s My Town and Recollections of a Child- hood”

Peter Aschoff Award for the best paper on Southern music Ross Brand, “Not with Hands: Tradi- tion and Change in the B. F. White Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition”

Lucille and Motee Daniels Award for the best paper in Southern Studies 2010 Southern Studies MA graduates (from left) Ferriday McClatchy, I’Nasah Crockett, Ross Brand, “Not with Hands: Tradi- Omar Gordon, Velsie Pate, and Alan Pike

tion and Change in the B. F. White David Wharton David Wharton Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition” Alan Pike Emily Haadsma Lucille and Motee Daniels Award for the best MA thesis in Southern Studies Alan Pike, “Natural Born World Shakers: Southern Prisoners in Popular Film”

MA DEGREES IN SOUTHERN STUDIES Completed Summer 2009 Nathan Campbell Best, “Three Dreams, Three Radical Reformers, and the Intellectual, Philosophical, and Collegial Connection between the Beloved Communities of Learning that They Each Created: Myles Horton at the Highlander Folk School, Wil- Completed Summer 2010 liam Heard Kilpatrick at Bennington Completed Fall 2009 I’Nasah Crockett, “Now Watch Me: College, and Royce Stanley Pitkin at Derek Johnson, “Interracial Relation- The Black Dancing Body and South- Goddard College” ships in the South” ern Identity”

John Rory Fraser, “Locals, Scientists, Velsie Pate, “Searching for Black Busi- Omar Gordon, Internship, Sounds of and the Problem of Proof in the Search nesses in Oxford, Mississippi” the South Project for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker” Completed Spring 2010 Miles Laseter, “Beyond the Sun- M. Benjamin Gilstrap, “The Old South Ferriday Mansell McClatchy, Intern- set: Race and Ethnicity in Cullman and Continental Europe: A ship, Oxford Tourism Bureau County, Alabama” Transatlantic Conversation” Alan Pike, “Natural Born World Blount Montgomery, Internship, Wil- Stacey E. B. Smith, “Woodie Long: Shakers: Southern Prisoners in Popular liam Winter Institute for Racial Memory Painter” Film” Reconciliation

Page 6 Summer 2010 The Southern Register SST Alum Caroline Sounds of the South Herring Appears on Prairie Home Companion on Mississippi On May 22, Caroline Herring (MA 1998) was a guest on Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio. She Public Radio sang four songs and chatted with host Garrison Keillor about In July, Mississippi Public Charles Wilson Thacker Mountain Radio and her Southern Studies MA degree. Broadcasting began playing the Keillor wondered if being from Canton, Mississippi, made get- Sounds of the South, a series of ra- ting a Southern Studies degree “somewhat redundant,” and dio spots created and produced Herring politely declined to disagree. Herring has recent- by the Center and its partners ly released a CD, Golden Apples of the Sun, which included at Media and Documentary two of the songs she performed on the program, “Tales of the Projects. Narrated by Charles Islander” and “CC Rider.” She and Keillor performed a duet Reagan Wilson, the three- of “Precious Lord,” and the show built a skit around her per- minute recordings use topics formance of “My Dixie Darling” by the Carter Family. Other from the Music volume of The guests on the program included Roy Blount Jr., E. G. Kight, New Encyclopedia of Southern and the Steep Canyon Rangers. Culture, published by the University of North Carolina Garrison Keeler and Caroline Herring Press, to reach a radio audience as part of the daily arts-and-interview program Here and Now. The idea began with discussions Jimmy Thomas, NESC managing editor, and Joe York of Media and Documentary Projects had about how to make material from The New Encyclopedia available on the radio. They chose the Music volume for its immediate appeal to radio listeners. Graduate students Nelson Griffin, Jesse Wright, and Omar Gordon had the job of taking individual encyclopedia entries, working with Thomas to edit them into short radio spots, and then, with York, adding music and sometimes interview material. NESC general editor Charles Reagan Wilson, now known to a small group as “The Talent,” narrated under York’s direction. Each spot begins with music. Sounds of the South is an ongoing project, and new graduate students will be involved in choosing topics and editing the recordings in the fall and spring semesters. Topics include B. B. King, Beale Street (the first spots Mississippi Public Broadcasting chose to run), Flaco Jimenez, Rosetta Tharpe, Bob Wills, Preservation Hall, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Clifton Chenier. One can hear SST Alum Camp Best Sounds of the South on Mississippi Public Broadcasting stations on Mascot Committee every Monday and Friday afternoon at 12:30. Southern Studies alumnus Camp Best (MA 2009) is one of Jimmy Thomas (left) three graduate student members of the 17-person Mascot and Ted Ownby Selection Committee at the University of Mississippi. That committee is in the middle of a multiphase process of listening, discussing, suggesting, and voting to select a new mascot for the University. Best, who came to the Southern Studies Program after working in Jackson as director of the Fondren Renaissance Foundation, is now pursuing a graduate degree in the University of Mississippi’s School of Education. One can follow the mascot selection process at mascot.olemiss.edu.

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 7 Southern Studies Students and Alumni Engaged in Oral History and Other Documentary Projects

Projects in oral history and other classes Southern Studies 101 and 102. Almost all Center documentary work kinds of documentary fieldwork have Students have often chosen oral his- involves students, so I asked a number of a long history in the Southern Studies tory topics in undergraduate and grad- alumni and students to recall their doc- Program. Part of what draws people to uate seminars and in the subjects for umentary work and any memorable les- the program is the possibility of meet- MA theses. Second, Living Blues mag- sons, successes, and problems. Students ing people outside university settings azine has a long history of interviews have documented the stories of musi- and getting to know and record their with blues musicians. Third, the Center cians, activists, ministers, and many stories, whether in written form or as has had a series of special documenta- others. Melissa McGuire Bridgman video or audio. While students and fac- ry projects, like efforts to document life (MA 1999) remembered the excite- ulty apply all sorts of scholarly devices on Ichauway Plantation in Georgia and ment of interviews with folk artists to constructing and interpreting those Strawberry Plains near Holly Springs, Howard Finster and R. A. Miller, and interviews, most successful documenta- Mississippi. Fourth, the Southern John Spivey’s (MA 1994) graduate proj- ry work has the primary goal of record- Foodways Alliance has developed an ect involved interviews with leaders of ing people’s stories. Many of the stu- impressive Oral History Program, which the PTL Club. In the thesis finished this dents recall the chance to go out and will soon celebrate its 500th interview. summer, Miles Laseter used oral history do documentary work as one of their fa- SFA has begun to make these oral his- as one of several ways to study Cullman vorite aspects of Southern Studies. tories available on their Web site, www. County, Alabama’s reputation as a “sun- In the past few years, oral history southernfoodways.com, in Okracasts, down town” that excluded African at the Center has taken five general programs that combine audio, photog- Americans, and Velsie Pate (MA 2010) forms. First, classes and theses: David raphy, and the text of the interviews. used oral histories to document African Wharton teaches Southern Studies Fifth, in the summer field school for the American business owners in Oxford. 533 (Documentary Photography and past three years, staff members from the Kate Medley (MA 2007) recalls the Oral History) and 534 (Studies in Library of Congress have worked with challenge of interviewing white su- Documentary Field Work), and Tom David Wharton in a program funded by premacist figures from the civil rights Rankin and Bill Ferris previously taught the American Music Archive to teach era. She returned to Mississippi in 2005, classes about documentary work. Also, the documentation of traditional music “just weeks before the start of the trial of several faculty members require in- in Mississippi. Material from that proj- Edgar Ray Killen. He and his family had terviews of students in other classes, ect will soon be available at http://purl. chased journalists from their home and sometimes including the introductory oclc.org/umarchives/MUM01725/. refused to give interviews to any news

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Page 8 Summer 2010 The Southern Register Meghan Leonard Teresa Parker Farris (MA 2005) recalled a project in St. Francisville, Louisiana, when the daughter of a potential interviewee was suspicious of the process. “I offered to leave and give them the night to think about it. When I got in my car the battery was dead and I was stuck. The mother and daughter took pity on me and kindly recruited several of their neighbors to help out. As the time passed, we began laughing and telling stories and eventually the car started. The whole ordeal allowed us to get to know each other, and I was in- vited to return the next day to do the interview.” Sudye Cauthen (MA 1993) empha- sized that what many people consider the least interesting part of the oral his- Prepping the barbecue at Goldie’s Trail Barbecue in Vicksburg, Mississippi tory process—transcribing—ultimately has its rewards. “Although I’d taken a course in oral history, no one had told outlets. So when I decided I wanted to ry films,Living Blues interviews, and the me that transcribing a one-hour tape do a documentary project about the civ- Library of Congress field school. She of- would require 50 hours of my time. il rights movement and include him, I fered a short list of what she has learned: There was one great bonus, however: switched my approach away from a jour- “Know as much about your subject as Those people whose words I transcribed nalism bend and pitched instead an oral possible before you sit down for the in- live in my head every day. I know their history to Mr. Killen. After a long phone terview; be willing to follow where your stories. Unforgettable characters, story- conversation (mostly about where I was interviewee leads; and, above all, re- tellers, all.” raised and who’s my daddy and who’s spect the person you are talking to.” For some students, the process and my granddaddy and what church do I go As in many first-time stories, stu- the interview subject combined to to, et cetera), he agreed. It was the only dents often recall confronting and may- change their lives. Paige Porter Fischer interview he gave before the trial.” For be overcoming difficulties. Meghan (MA 1998) recalls the steps that led Brooke Butler (MA 2004), who worked Leonard, a current graduate student to her MA thesis. “I had no idea how on the Strawberry Plains project along who has already had success as part of many good storytellers were unpub- with Rob Hawkins (MA 2005), the a team of documentary filmmakers, de- lished—not until I took Tom Rankin’s most intriguing interview involved an scribed a recent first attempt in her work documentary studies class and learned unsuccessful hunt. “My most memorable for an SFA project. “Last week I went the art and craft of finding, retelling, oral history experience was going ’coon down to interview Randy Wright, own- and preserving those truth-is-stranger- hunting at night on horseback with Boe er of Goldie’s Trail BBQ in Vicksburg. than-fiction stories. I was in line at the McClure. I had my camera and recorder, I was pretty nervous but thought I was old James Food Center when I stumbled which I juggled while holding the reins doing okay. I set up all my equipment, upon a man named L. C. He was in his and riding through the woods.” tested my audio levels, began my inter- mid-70s. He was African American. Many of the recollections involved view, and, two minutes into it, I real- And he had the body of a 40-year-old. learning lessons about oral history. ized I hadn’t hit record.” She recovered It wasn’t long before I was sitting in Kerry Taylor (MA 1998) did oral histo- to complete the interview successful- his living room with a tape recorder. I ries as part of his MA thesis in Southern ly. Matthew Brothers (MA 1998) con- interviewed him twice for the assign- Studies and went on to work in the field ducted an interview that was memora- ment—which was to interview a strang- as part of his PhD at the University of ble in multiple ways. “One of my proj- er and write a narrative about it. At the North Carolina. He reports, “At some ects involved the folklore of the Oxford end of our second meeting, I stumbled point in conducting interviews I real- square. I threw myself into it and got a upon a piece of his story that left me ized that good narrators make good in- new barber whose shop was just off the speechless. ‘Who had the biggest effect terviews. My best interviews had very square. He suffered from Parkinson’s dis- on your life?’ I asked him. He thought little to do with me and everything to ease and every hair cut was a harrowing for a few moments and said, ‘Oh, that’s do with the narrator’s ability to tell experience. That barber told me some easy. Mister Bill.’ He went on to de- stories and analyze events.” Melanie great stories about the national guard’s scribe a man for whom he worked when Young, a second-year student who presence when Ole Miss was integrat- he was young, a man who had lots of came to the program with no oral histo- ed . . . with the conversation frequently pens, wrote all kinds of stories, and won ry training, has worked on documenta- continuing over the hum of clippers.” a big prize called the Nobel. ‘Do you

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 9 mean William Faulkner?’ I asked. He and she is joining her skills at documen- Citadel Oral History Program, which, nodded and smiled. After a year’s worth tary work with some new projects teach- he writes, “explores how globalization of interviews, I had enough informa- ing people to conduct foodways oral his- and technology have changed people’s tion to write a sort of biography of his tories. Joe York’s (MA 2005) documen- work lives and how workers have re- life, something that I believe was, in the tary films rely on his skills getting people sponded to those changes in Charleston end, a gift to his children, since L. C. to tell their own stories. Sudye Cauthen and the South Carolina Lowcountry.” had never had the opportunity to learn founded the North Florida Center for Kate Medley joins oral history, film, and how to write.” Documentary Studies. Evan Hatch photography in her work centered in There are not a great number of jobs (MA 2002) does documentary work as Atlanta. “My job with Whole Foods is available for people who do oral history, part of his position at the Arts Center essentially to tell the stories behind the but Center alumni have found some of of Cannon County in Tennessee and local food in our stores.” As the chair them. Here at the Center, Amy Evans as the 2010 president of the Tennessee of the Louisiana Folklife Commission, Streeter (MA 2003) is the oral histori- Folklore Society. Kerry Taylor teaches Teresa Parker Farris is working with oth- an for the Southern Foodways Alliance, history at the Citadel and started the er folklorists to coordinate oral history documentation of the BP oil spill and its Phil Ensley impact on southeast Louisiana’s cultural communities. She also served as the Oral History Consultant for Floodwall, a post-Katrina sculptural installation that included interviews of New Orleanians whose homes were lost in the flood. Many other alumni have jobs that make use of documentary skills. Paige Porter Fischer has written on numerous travel topics and is West Coast editor of Better Homes and Gardens. In her position in the Mississippi Arts Commission, Mary Margaret Miller (MA 2007) works with traditional artists and people who study them. Ben Cannon (BA 2006) first did interviewing in Southern Studies undergraduate classes and now interviews people for a living as a journalist in Colorado. Artist Lynn Linnemeier (MA 2005), who among other things worked to document the history of Mound Bayou while she was in the graduate program, has recently completed a project/art installation, Mapping the Present Just Went By: A Journey through Black Morgan County, Georgia, that opened this summer at the Madison Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, Georgia. The exhibit uses Brooke Butler interviewing Fannie Zinn, Strawberry Plains, 2004 material from county and state archives, oral histories, photography, sculptural installation, audio performance, and interviews with residents. Sally Graham (MA 1993), who was part the first team Mark Your Calendars! of interviewers in the Ichauway project, did documentary work in Palau, worked March 20–23, 2010 for CNN, and is now following her 8th Mississippi Delta Literary Tour mother and aunt on a series of adven- Based in Greenwood tures she is documenting on a Facebook Visits to Indianola, Greenville, Clarksdale page, Hop-on-Board.com. March 24–26, 2010 18th Oxford Conference for the Book Ted Ownby www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com

Page 10 Summer 2010 The Southern Register Center’s Old Federal Road Project Wins Award David Wharton The Center participated in a project that recently won an award from the American Association for State and Local History. The AASLH announced that Discovery, Education, and Heritage Tourism of the Old Federal Road won a Leadership in History Award of Merit for 2010. The project brought together several groups, the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration Georgia Division, the Kituwah Preservation and Education Programs, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, along with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Mississippi, for a series of projects documenting the Federal Road, an important U.S. govern- ment venture in the early 1800s. The award, along with 48 others from across Signs along the route of the Old Federal Road show that land has become a hot commod- the country, will be presented at the ity in some parts of rural Georgia. AASLH Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City in September. The Center studied the Federal Road ect studied varying and often conflict- U.S., military operations, commerce and to describe who designed it, who used ing understandings of the frontier, land travel, and religion. The Federal Road be- it, who opposed it, and how it ended up use and ownership, the governments of came a route popular during the Georgia as part of the Trail of Tears. The proj- the Cherokee Nation, Georgia, and the Gold Rush in the late 1820s, and troops

David Wharton traveled the Road in the campaigns of Chickamauga in 1863 and Atlanta in 1864. Important statements made along the Federal Road, some more famous than others, included “We wish to remain in the land of our fathers” (Cherokee Chief John Ross in 1830), “We shall not consider the Cherokees as good neighbors unless they will allow their best friends, who are taking every means in their power to make them happy, to make a road” (U.S. Secretary of War Henry Dearborn in 1803), and “Thar’s gold in them thar hills” (someone talking about northern Georgia in the 1820s). The Center’s part in the project, directed by Ted Ownby, included a report, an audio driving tour of the route, narrated by Kendra Myers and produced by Joe York of Media and Documentary Projects, a map with photographs by David Wharton, and a 16-panel instal- A roadside vegetable vendor takes a mid-afternoon summer nap along the route of the lation of maps and other images, for use Old Federal Road. in museums.

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 11 Renowned NY Philanthropist Creates Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series at the University

In 2011 the Gilder-Jordan Speaker Photo courtesy of Monticello Series will bring one distinguished speaker to campus every year for a lecture and discussion on important topics in Southern cultural history. “Getting to meet the scholars we read in classes,” said Center director Ted Ownby, “gives all of us a chance to ask questions and to hear their latest ideas. I feel sure that a lot of speakers will give us a preview of their new projects, so this is a particularly appealing way to keep up with the most recent scholarship and the thinking behind it.” The series is named for two visionaries in the study, teaching, and preservation of American history, one New York philanthropist and investor Richard Gilder, a National Humanities Medal winner whose $200,000 gift will fund the lectures. Continuing his extraordi- nary record of supporting the humanities, the lectureship honors Gilder’s Dan Jordan, former president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and his wife, Lou, family as well as his friends, Mississippi (from left) are pictured with Lois Chiles and Richard Gilder at Jefferson’s home, Monticello. The Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series in Southern Cultural History has been natives Dan and Lou Jordan, now resi- created at the University of Mississippi by Gilder to honor his friends and University of dents of Charlottesville, Virginia. The Mississippi alumni, the Jordans, as well as his own family. Gilder’s grandfather, Joseph University will begin inviting renowned Moyse, attended the University of Mississippi at the turn of the 20th century. Both scholars to campus next spring. Gilder and Dan Jordan are recognized as visionaries in the study, teaching, and preserva- “No individual has done more to sup- tion of American history. port teachers of American history and to enhance an appreciation of our national heritage than Dick Gilder,” dividuals and organizations whose work at the American Museum of Natural said Dan Jordan, who served from has deepened the nation’s understand- History, the first doctoral program oper- 1985 through 2008 as president of the ing of the humanities or helped expand ated by an American museum. Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which America’s access to important humani- Although Gilder did not attend the owns Monticello. “Lou and I are deep- ties resources. University of Mississippi, his friendship ly honored to have our family name With his friend Lewis E. Lehrman, with the Jordans and family relation- linked at our alma mater with that of Gilder endowed the Lincoln Prize ships led to his support of this initiative Dick Gilder, for whom we have great in Gettysburg College’s Lincoln and on the Oxford campus. Gilder’s grandfa- admiration and affection.” Soldiers Institute and cofounded the ther, Joseph Moyse, was enrolled at the Gilder is a founder and chief execu- Gilder Lehrman Collection, the Gilder University around the turn of the 20th tive officer of Gilder Gagnon Howe & Lehrman Institute of American History, century. Gilder’s wife, Lois Chiles, who Co., an employee-owned investment Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman has enjoyed a career as an actress, mod- firm, and is the president of the Gilder Center for the Study of Slavery, el, and philanthropist, has two nieces Foundation. In 2005 he received the Resistance, and Abolition, and oth- pursuing degrees here. National Humanities Medal, which is er organizations. In 2007 the Richard “In early conversations with Mr. presented by the president to honor in- Gilder Graduate School was created Gilder, it was apparent he had the high-

Page 12 Summer 2010 The Southern Register est regard for the Jordans, as well as an interest in supporting history programs Field School Meets Again at Ole Miss,” said Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat. “We are fortunate to be For the fourth year in a row, the Center, in partnership with the American Music among the distinguished organizations Archive, sponsored a field school for cultural documentation during the May inter- supported by Mr. Gilder and to have session (May 12–24, 2010). As in previous years, the course focused on recording the opportunity to recognize the re- oral histories with makers of religious music in the Mid-South region. The two-week markable lives of Dan and Lou Jordan. school was taught by three visiting folklorists from the American Folklife Center The Jordans are among our most emi- at the Library of Congress—David Taylor, the Folklife Center’s Head of Research nent and respected graduates.” and Programs; Michael Taft, Head of the Archive; and Guha Shankar, Folklife Dan, from Philadelphia, and Lou, Specialist—along with David from Jackson, earned undergraduate Wharton, the Center’s Director and graduate degrees in history from of Documentary Studies. During the University of Mississippi, and Dan the first week of the course stu- received a doctoral degree in history dents received intensive training from the University of Virginia. During in conducting, processing, and his time as president of the Thomas archiving oral histories. During Jefferson Foundation, Dan Jordan rev- the second week they divided olutionized the organization’s efforts up into teams and went out into in fundraising, historic preservation, the field to interview musicians. scholarship, education, and communi- “The field school was very suc- ty outreach. Lou Jordan, an artist, also cessful,” Wharton said. “The stu- contributed significantly to Monticello’s dents recorded two or three inter- programs and activities. “It brings great views apiece, so we added a sig- happiness to Dan and me to know that nificant amount of material to the our treasured friends, Dick Gilder and Archives.”

Lois Chiles, have made this gift to the David Wharton Previous American Folklife University of Mississippi for lectures in Field School students Tyler Keith, Mary Amelia Center field schools have taken history,” said Lou Jordan. Taylor, and Cathryn Stout (from left) participat- place at universities around the The Gilder-Jordan lectureship pro- ing in a Sacred Harp event at Concord Baptist nation, exploring such topics as vides for a faculty committee to invite Church in Calhoun County, Mississippi the history, cultural meanings, at least one well-known scholar to par- and uses of Provo Canyon, Utah; ticipate annually. The invitation will the changing maritime culture of the Chesapeake Bay; water use and water rights include a public presentation as well in an agricultural community in southern Colorado; the intersection of nature and as meetings and activities with stu- culture along the Kokosing River in central Ohio; and the history, uses, and cultural dents and faculty. A committee of fac- meaning of the town square in Bloomington, Indiana. ulty members from Southern Studies, history, and African American Studies David Wharton will be forming soon to start discussions about whom to invite to present the in- augural lecture. “We are profoundly grateful to Mr. Gilder for his generous gift, which will allow our students and faculty the opportunity to engage with the best scholars in American history and studies programs from other institutions around the country,” said Chancellor Dan Jones. “This new lecture series will significantly build on our established strengths in history, Southern Studies, and African American Studies by helping our students, faculty, and wider community deepen our understanding of our heritage as Americans.”

Tina H. Hahn Field School students (from left) Jonathan Dial, Cathryn Stout, Tyler Keith, Mary Amelia Taylor, and Eric Griffis on the grounds of Concord Baptist Church in Calhoun County, Mississippi

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 13 CALL FOR PAPERS Call for Papers / SASA 2011 “Peoples, Publics, and Places Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Faulkner’s Geographies/Southern Literary Geographies: of the Souths” July 17–21, 2011 Georgia State University will host the Southern American Studies Association 2011 conference, “Peoples, Publics, and The 37th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference Places of the Souths,” in downtown Atlanta, February 17– will explore the topic of “Faulkner’s Geographies,” opening February 19, 2011. outward from the germinal ground of the author’s postage We invite our colleagues in American Studies, Southern stamp of native soil to consider the myriad means and itiner- Studies, and all related fields to join us in interdisciplin- aries by which bodies get around in Yoknapatawpha and be- ary investigations of the interconnections among the U.S., yond. We welcome submissions that engage with contempo- Hemispheric, and Global Souths. As always, we encourage rary scholarship in social geography or reflect on the role of graduate students to present papers. SASA’s Critoph Prize is spatiality in literature and culture, as a way to illuminate the an award for the best graduate student paper given at the con- meaning, organization, and function of space in Faulkner’s ference; it includes a certificate and a check for $250 as well work and world. as recognition at the next SASA meeting. Topics could include, but are by no means limited to, the While we hope to attract a host of comparative, cross-cultur- uses of local, regional, national, hemispheric, colonial, global, transnational, and transregional projects, we are open to a al, or postcolonial topographies as a window onto Faulkner’s wide range of topics, panels, and presentations. Topics might in- writings; the dynamics of country and city, core and periph- clude plantation economies and postplantation cultures; food- ery, metropolis and hinterland, or simply of place and space, ways, culinary cultures, and sustainable agricultures; vernacular in particular texts or in the Faulkner oeuvre generally; the architecture and regional identities; social movements across significance and function of spatial borders or boundaries; borders; and African American perspectives on the Souths. For mythic geographies of North and South, East and West; the other suggested topics, see www.theasa.net/chapter_southern. poetics, politics, economics, phenomenology, or psychology Please send proposals that include a 150–200 word abstract of Faulknerian space; actual maps and acts of mapping in the and a one-page CV for each participant on an individual or novels and stories; geographies of development (over-, un- session proposal to Christine Skwiot at [email protected]. der-, or uneven), of migration, of exile or diaspora; the flow The deadline is September 15, 2010. of bodies, persons, or populations through space; and the contours of Yoknapatawpha itself as an imagined geography. We are inviting 40-minute plenary papers and 20-minute panel papers. Plenary papers consist of approximately 5,000 2010 Eudora Welty Awards words and will appear in the conference volume published by the University Press of Mississippi. Panel papers consist Each year the Center for the Study of Southern Culture of approximately 2,500 words and will be considered by the gives the Eudora Welty Awards for Creative Writing to conference program committee for possible expansion and two Mississippi high school students for short stories and inclusion in the published volume. poetry written during the previous school years. First This year, as a new feature of the conference, we will also place carries a prize of $500 and second place a prize of entertain proposals for 20-minute papers or 75-minute panels $250. We are glad to announce that we had 28 entries on the broader topic of “Southern Literary Geographies”— from 14 public and private high schools for the 2010 not necessarily limited to Faulkner—for a series of sessions awards. on various aspects of that subject as well. First place this year went to Alexandra Franklin, from For plenary papers the 16th edition of the University of Jackson Prep, for the poem “Icarus.” Alexandra graduated Chicago Manual of Style should be used as a guide in prepar- in May and will be majoring in English at the University ing manuscripts. Three copies of manuscripts (hard copy only) of Alabama in the fall. Second place went to Zach must be submitted by January 31, 2011. Authors whose pa- Grossenbacher, from Madison Central High School, for pers are selected will receive a waiver of the conference regis- the story “Breaking Up the Atmosphere.” Zach graduat- tration fee and lodging at the Inn at Ole Miss from Saturday, ed in May and will attend the University of Mississippi in July 16, through Thursday, July 21. For short papers, two- the fall as an Honors College student and a Lott Scholar. page abstracts must be submitted by January 31, 2011, pref- He plans a double major in Public Policy Leadership and erably through e-mail attachment. Authors whose abstracts English. are selected will receive a reduction of the registration fee to To see a list of past winner of the Eudora Welty Awards, $100. All manuscripts and inquiries should be addressed to visit the Center’s Web site www.olemiss.edu/south/ Donald Kartiganer, Department of English, The University of EudoraWeltyAwards.html. Mississippi, University, MS 38677-1848. Telephone: 662-236- Sally Cassady Lyon 7194; e-mail: [email protected]. Decisions for all papers will be made by March 5, 2011. j

Page 14 Summer 2010 The Southern Register Lawrence Reports on Teaching in the Mississippi Delta

In an early Southern Studies course, after an initial reading of Melba Beals’s Warriors Don’t Cry, I distinctly remember a contentious group discussion of race and education in the South. This powerful memoir, a detailed depic- tion of the painful struggle to integrate Little Rock Central High, provided my first glimpse into the immense struggle to achieve educational equality in our region. At the time, however, I could never have predicted the great significance of such an introduction. When I declared Southern Studies as my course of study during that freshman fall semester, my vision was a romantic one. Like many, I imagined the region’s rich history with a mind of “Moonlight To Kill a Mockingbird– and Magnolias.” Quickly, though, I re- Freshman Honors Course alized the massive complexity could not be easily reduced to a singular idea, particularly to the imagined stereotypes region. During my annual, summer trip mandated English II exam to earn their surrounding Southern identity. to the Bentonia Blues Festival, held near high school diploma, are typically con- Throughout my continued undergrad- Yazoo City, Mississippi, I am engulfed sumed by the competencies presented by uate coursework, race was a consistent by the magnitude of history, of regional the state curriculum. Many times, these theme thread among literature, research, identity on display. concepts do not address the reflection travel, projects, oral histories, panel dis- Five years later, after my myriad of ex- on race and regional identity I long to cussions, and passionate debates. These periences through the Center, I stand be- explore in the classroom; however, I feel sensitive issues arose in academic dis- fore my own classroom, reading from To sure my background in Southern culture cussions about travel and leisure in the Kill a Mockingbird. My 10th grade English provides a unique perspective. South. Why have restored antebellum class has never heard of Harper Lee or Many participants in Mississippi mansions, which serve as historical at- her acclaimed novel. At Rosa Fort High Teacher Corps hail from hometowns tractions for countless visitors, often of- School in Tunica, Mississippi, discussions and universities far from the boundar- fered guided tours with little or no men- of race and regional identity are foreign ies of the South. When introduced to tion of the enslaved men and women to most students. While Southern stereo- Mississippi, much time is spent inte- who were integral in such a setting? In a types permeate classic literature, themes grating these new teachers with their documentary filmmaking course, my fas- of tolerance and equality ever-present in surroundings and the history that has cination with race and regional identi- Southern works offer an entirely new per- built the difficulties we face in region- ty was energized. Two classmates and I spective to students born and raised in al school systems. I look back favorably spent weekends traveling through and this Mississippi River Delta. upon my experience in the interdisci- around the Mississippi Delta, recording While I am able to infuse these over- plinary environment provided by my the murmurings of “outsider art” begin- arching ideas from my time in Southern education, and I must recognize that ning with bicycles hanging from trees academia, I am often frustrated by my original introduction to education in and multicolored yard-art on an Itta inability to relay and express the magni- the South—and the indelible impres- Bena roadside, the memorabilia left idly tude of values I learned through my trav- sion that led me to dedicate these years by one grave of Robert Johnson, contin- els and studies in this discipline. As op- to education, with hope to introduce ued to a quaint, Vicksburg, Mississippi, posite my presentations of Southern folk self-realization of Southern regional- gallery where we learned of brilliant art- art, I dictate ideas of personalized style, ism and cultural distinction into my ists creating imaginative work while liv- though ignoring the handmade, artistic classroom—bringing valuable ideas to ing in abject poverty. The blues, a musi- creations I have come to admire, focus- young students, passing along the last- cal genre responsible for matchless, wide- ing namely on styles of standardized test- ing impact placed upon me. spread influence, is still played in rather ing requirements and tips for mastery. authentic fashion in festivals across the My students, who must pass the state- Jennifer Lawrence

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 15 Margaret Walker Alexander and the Study of the 20th-Century African American

As a professor of English at Jackson State Photograph: Carl Van Vechten, By permission of the Van Vechten Trust a book of poetry by the same name in University (JSU) in 1968, Margaret 1942. For that work, she became the first Walker Alexander founded the Institute African American woman to receive the for the Study of the History, Life, and Yale University Younger Poets Award. Culture of Black People. Already an ac- By 1949 Walker and her husband, Firnist complished author, Alexander stood at Alexander, had moved their three chil- the forefront of a nascent Black Studies dren to Mississippi so she could join the movement, but the Institute also reflect- Language Arts faculty and teach English ed her complete immersion in 20th-cen- at Jackson College (now Jackson State tury African-American history and cul- University). While at JSU, she returned ture. During her lifetime, she had had the to Iowa to complete her doctoral disserta- unique opportunity both to be mentored tion, a neoslave narrative inspired by the by the likes of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston memories of her maternal grandmoth- Hughes, and Richard Wright and to be a er, Elvira Ware Dozier. Published under mentor to writers such as James Baldwin, her maiden name, Margaret Walker, in Toni Morrison, and Maya Angelou. 1966, Jubilee represented 30 years of re- Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on search and reflection and has never since July 7, 1915, Margaret Abigail Walker been out of print. was reading and writing by the time At JSU, Dr. Alexander’s lasting she was five, and, at age 14, she start- achievement was the Institute for the ed a journal that she kept for the rest Margaret Walker, New York City, Study of the History, Life, and Culture November 27, 1942 of her life. In 1925 her family settled in of Black People. As director of the New Orleans, where her writing flour- Institute, she organized several confer- ished, especially after meeting Langston ences that were the first of their kind, Hughes, who encouraged her to leave a close friendship with Richard Wright including the 1971 National Evaluative the South to complete her education. and joined his Southside Writers Group, Conference on Black Studies and the She promptly enrolled at her father’s eventually taking over as group lead- 1973 Phyllis Wheatley Poetry Festival. alma mater, Northwestern University, er when Wright moved to New York After 30 years of teaching, Alexander and received a bachelor’s degree in City. In a 1937 issue of Poetry magazine, retired as Professor Emerita of English English in 1935. Walker published her seminal work, and donated her literary and administra- After her graduation, Walker stayed “For My People.” At the University of tive papers to the Institute that she had in Chicago and worked with the Federal Iowa, she refined “For My People” for founded, which was subsequently named Writers’ Project. There, she developed her master’s thesis and published it in in her honor: the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center for the Study of the 20th-Century African American. The Alexander Papers at JSU include more than 130 of her journals dating from the 1930s to the 1990s and, in all, constitute the single largest collection of a modern black, female writer anywhere in the world. Open to the public in historic Ayer Hall, the Alexander Center houses more than 30 significant manuscript collec- tions such as the papers of former U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige and a large oral history repository that includes the official collection of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. For additional information, visit www.jsums.edu/margaretwalker.

Margaret Walker signing copies Robert Luckett and Angela Stewart of Jubilee, 1966

Page 16 Summer 2010 The Southern Register Reading the South

Morkan’s Quarry. have no idea how all this will go. But By Steve Yates. I want you to remember your mother and remember our name. Do nothing Springfield, Missouri: Moon to sully them. You are a Morkan, one City Press, 2010. 365 pages. day to be the quarry master. . . . Keep $27.95 cloth. that name dear as an army keeps its flag. And know that all you do affects The year is 1861 and Michael Morkan that name and its bearing.” runs a successful limestone quarry in Early on, a general tells Michael Springfield, Missouri. Michael is apo- that the army of Missouri does not litical—neither a Union man nor a “tromp into fields and take,” but they Confederate. The Civil War is upon do exactly that—both sides do over him and everyone else in Missouri, and over, and we see Leighton learn but Michael just wants to stay out of the hard way that there are no rules in the conflict, run his quarry, and teach wartime. While Michael is in prison, a his only son, 15-year-old Leighton, group of men from Texas calling them- the business. For Michael, his son selves rebels move into the Morkans’ is the main thing: he wants to keep home and befriend Leighton. The Leighton safe and alive. Living in a men are, in fact, murdering thieves border state, Michael tries to remain who case the joint and take every- neutral for as long as he can, even thing the Morkans have. We wonder when his feisty Irish mistress, Cora along with Michael Morkan: how will Slade, complains, “Why must you al- detailed historical novel. Throughout this young boy, Leighton, just 15 at ways be in the middle without a side? Morkan’s Quarry, we meet characters the start, come out of this war, mold- Not a Rebel. Not a Yank. Not mar- who don’t think much about conse- ed by such violence? ried but in love.” Inevitably the war quences, the future, or anything beyond Like Leighton, we only see parts of comes to Michael, stalking him, and getting food and money, and the big the war—in bits and pieces. Whole, changes the Morkans’ lives forever. “blap” their guns and explosions make. healthy soldiers march off, only to At the beginning of Morkan’s The only exception is Michael come back broken, mangled, or dead, Quarry, Michael and Leighton Morkan Morkan. He thinks of the future and “stacked like logs,” in wagons, their are at odds the usual way most fathers he wants to prevent Leighton from “bloody limbs dangling over the side- and sons are, but here the stakes are witnessing the murder, horror, and boards.” As the war rages on year after exceptionally high. While the fight- real evil that comes with any war. But year, we see fewer men whole, even ing nears, Leighton ignores his father’s no father can protect his son forever, fewer body parts. Near the end of the practical advice and risks using explo- and when Leighton has to shoot his novel, a crowd of Union women rol- sive powder to quarry limestone—both own beloved horse because it is near lick behind one soldier, “tapping at Union and Confederate soldiers will death with heat and exhaustion, we the body parts that dangled like a hear the blast when it goes off, put- see exactly the kind of potential sol- stringer of fish” from his saddle. ting the quarry and their lives in jeop- dier he could become. Meanwhile, we have not forgot- ardy. Both armies need firepower, and Even though Michael tries to play ten imprisoned Michael Morkan. both armies want the Morkans’ ex- both Union and Confederate sides, a How will he change in order to sur- plosives. But “Deep down, [Leighton] bearded carpetbagger named Heron vive? How will his dignity diminish longed for the audacity of it, the great demands that Michael hand over his as he learns to “sup” on the sleeves of blap black powder made, the shot ring- black powder for explosives. When he dishwashers as they sleep, taking in ing over town, rattling windows and refuses and the Union troops come, their “leavings” for food? Michael’s puncheons.” Michael is labeled a rebel traitor, and guard Sergeant Nimms is the sort of Leighton’s immature decision fore- before he’s taken off to prison in St. bad guy who lives for a good long war shadows what is to come in this rich, Louis, he tells his son, “Leighton, I in order to get money and land for

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himself. Tortured and pilloried, tied At one point Leighton shows a Christ-like to one of three sawed-off clumsy soldier how to cut limestone telegraph poles, what will Michael properly. “It’s an act of faith,” he says give up along with information that to the officer. “Don’t look at me or Nimms insists he needs? the hammer or else the chuck will Leighton eventually busts his fa- drop and you’ll waste stone. ... As the ther out of prison, but Michael is left chuck travels, you’ll feel a change.” a scarecrow, a mere slip of a man. The officer watches Leighton chis- Still, he maintains his own kind of eling, awestruck. You will read this dignity and sanity. Too saddened to book in much the same way. read about all the bad news in newspapers, he sleeps on the kitchen floor Margaret McMullan and spends his days staring at trees or leaning against a windowsill, holding his hands outside a window. But his heart doesn’t harden into stone. He doesn’t fault Leighton for join- Freedom’s Teacher: The Life ing up with a Union army and kill- of Septima Clark. ing in order to survive. He forgives By Katherine Mellen Charron. his mistress, Cora, who couldn’t wait. Michael is so magnanimous, he can’t Chapel Hill: University of Within this space, Charron notes rejoice when he finds that Leighton North Carolina Press, 2009. that “African Americans and white justifiably kills the prison guard 480 pages. $35.00 cloth. southerners have long used memory Nimms, though most readers will. and place to locate themselves in his- By the end, Leighton’s sense of hon- tory, though segregation forced them or and duty develop into real sympa- Katherine Mellen Charron in to map a racially inseparable past by thy and love for his father. His actions Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima attaching different meanings to the are what matter in the end. Michael Clark alters the terrain of movement same geography.” While white wom- Morkan has given his son the gift of scholarship, asserting that the black en could engage in “memory work” what William Faulkner called the old educational system rather than the by erecting monuments on the phys- verities and truths of the heart, love church was the institutional base for ical landscape, black women went and honor and pity and pride and activism. By examining the life of about commemorating past struggles compassion and sacrifice. Charleston educator Septima Clark, through oral tradition, most often Morkan’s Quarry is filled with the Charron presents compelling evi- heard from black women teachers. details we leave behind, both in war dence that education was the foun- Education promoted cultural pride and in life—clothing, jewelry, hand- dation for political awareness and and community uplift, and Clark writing, body parts, dignity, sani- empowerment. Black women teach- was raised in an environment where ty, lives—details Yates uses to draw ers played a central role in each com- teachers had the power to help stu- us into this 19th-century world. munity, and Clark’s career illustrates dents situate themselves in a history. There is Michael’s script in his let- how profoundly important their As Charron illustrates, Clark dedi- ters and contracts with his “scythe- work was to both local activism and cated her life to such memory work like swoops”; Leighton’s way of chis- the messages of uplift presented at a and its accompanying message of eling plump letters on his mother’s national level. continual self-improvement. tombstone; a cut callus swept into In Charron’s work, the city of Clark’s first experience with teach- a desk drawer; a rosewood hair clip. Charleston with its sharply defined ing, and with rural poverty, occurred And always those scraps of contracts, social hierarchy plays a significant on Johns Island, which at the time notes, and letters found in pock- role in Clark’s life as she comes of age took an eight-hour boat ride through ets, desk drawers or even caves, the in the 1910s. Charron’s careful de- tidal creeks to reach. Charron notes writing and grammar a reflection of scription of the city allows the read- that teaching in a remote rural school a person’s character, inherent good- er to move through the streets with such as this required a “missionary’s ness (or not), and upbringing. Yates Clark, from Henrietta Street across faith of purpose and a true believer’s links theme and plot, lining up stone Meeting to Marion Square and King, zeal,” qualities Clark certainly had. to quarried stone as he builds this sol- becoming aware of the invisible At a time when Progressive efforts id and powerful story. but palpable barriers of segregation. improved education across the coun-

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try, South Carolina lagged behind School in Monteagle, Tennessee, encompassed half a century of politi- for both black and white children, where she ultimately became a staff cal change. spending a fraction of what other member. She first visited to attend a states did per pupil. workshop on school desegregation a Becca Walton Charron describes a climate in few months after the Brown ruling. which “from afar and in theory, white While at Highlander, Clark worked concern for black education remained tirelessly on the development of a hostile” but “up close and in practice, curriculum for Citizenship Schools, Intellectual Life and the it manifested itself as indifference.” the first of which was developed on American South, 1810- This indifference allowed teachers a Johns Island. She trained hundreds 1860: An Abridged Edition great deal of decision-making pow- of educators to teach adults to read er for their schools and communities. while also presenting lessons about of Conjectures of Order. It also necessitated resourcefulness the students’ role as citizens and vot- By Michael O’Brien. in the absence of learning materials. ers. At the end of Clark’s career, her With few textbooks, Clark improvised teacher training resulted in the voter Chapel Hill: University of lessons drawing on students’ everyday registration of thousands across the North Carolina Press, 2010. lives, a method that she would use South. Clark insisted on the inclu- 400 pages. $39.95 cloth. throughout her career. sion of the three Rs in these class- Clark’s first overt political ef- es, instead of only providing lessons fort occurred in 1918 while she was necessary for registration. For Clark, Michael O’Brien, a professor of a teacher at Charleston’s private literacy brought confidence and self- American intellectual history at Avery Institute, following her time sufficiency in daily life, and the re- the University of Cambridge, has on Johns Island. The Charleston sulting self-awareness needed to par- spent most of his career authoring NAACP, founded in 1917, waged a ticipate in civic activism. and editing books that attest to the campaign to force the school board Septima Clark’s lifelong dedica- existence of “clever people” in the to hire black teachers for the black tion to education as a socially trans- American South. His award-win- public city schools where only white formative force altered the lives of ning Conjectures of Order (2004), a teachers were permitted. Charron ex- many. Charron’s account of Clark’s two-volume history of the intellec- amines Clark’s awakening activism in life illustrates how tireless the teach- tual life of the antebellum South, a truly compelling way, charting her er was—her biography shows relent- helped to overturn long-held as- progress and growing self-awareness less activity over decades. Clark, in sumptions about the quality and ex- throughout her life. her methodical but passionate ac- panse of intellectual production in In 1929 Clark relocated to tivism, was a truly formidable fig- the Old South. Intellectual Life and the Columbia to teach, finding a city ure. Freedom’s Teacher would work American South, the abridged version not nearly as caste conscious as exceptionally well as a text in a col- of Conjectures of Order, is a concise Charleston, where she was excluded lege history course, spanning as it account of the earlier work’s impor- from groups within the black com- does much of the 20th century and tant arguments and themes. munity’s hierarchy because of her sta- tracing the movement from the le- O’Brien rejects the characteriza- tus as the daughter of a slave. She be- gal challenges of the NAACP in the tion of Southern antebellum soci- came active as a clubwoman, some- 1920s to the 1970s attack on poverty ety as premodern, a stagnant back- thing her social status had precluded through community uplift programs water whose inhabitants resisted en- in her home city. As a well-educat- like Headstart. Charron’s work close- gaging with European innovations. ed member of the city’s professional ly examines the role of class and gen- Instead, it was made up of cosmo- class, Clark enjoyed active civic en- der in the movement, and her analy- politan communities, replete with gagement that she would continue sis joins that of others who have dis- multilingual, multiethnic, and eco- upon her return to Charleston a few cussed the marginalization of women nomically and geographically mo- years later. Through involvement in organizations such as the Southern bile individuals from different reli- with the YWCA, Clark also began to Christian Leadership Conference gious backgrounds—a far cry from engage in interracial work and groups and the Student Nonviolent the often-assumed homogeneity of like the League of Women Voters. Coordinating Committee. With a Southern antebellum populations. Always seeking opportunities clear and compelling argument and The task for Southern intellectuals for professional development as a an appealing subject in Clark, it pro- was to make sense of the constant teacher and civic leader, in 1954 vides a fresh perspective on the lo- movement of diverse peoples and Clark went to the Highlander Folk cal activism of one woman whose life new ideas into their region by con-

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scribes the social and cultural con- dition whose larger role in the arc of text in which Southern intellectuals American intellectual history has yet lived, thought, read, and wrote and to be fully acknowledged. the ways in which intellectual ex- While Conjectures of Order will re- changes between Southerners and main the standard work on Southern non-Southerners took place. These intellectual history for the foresee- interactions, in which shared assump- able future, this abridgement serves as tions often led to widely different con- a more accessible introduction to the clusions, helped form the basis of the field of study that O’Brien’s scholar- region’s intellectual community. ship has helped to create, shape, and The intellectual variety in the re- maintain. gion is the focus of the second part of O’Brien’s book, in which the conven- Xaris A. Martínez tional labeling of the region’s thought processes as comprising a single, infe- rior, and dissent-suppressing “mind” (W. J. Cash’s The Mind of the South, for example) is challenged. O’Brien traces In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: the impact of three often-overlapping A Memoir. European philosophical movements structing frameworks and categories on a growing Southern intellectual By Neil White. that would organize this information canon; the late Enlightenment stressed New York: William Morrow, and knowledge into something man- the need for order and optimism in its ageable and controllable. To that attainment, Romanticism highlighted 2009. 317 pages. $25.99 cloth, end, they became part of larger trans- an individual’s desire to belong, and an $14.99 paper. Atlantic networks of conversation early realist sensibility expressed skep- and written exchange in which they ticism about both of those endeavors. When one thinks of southern became acquainted and conversant A sampling of early-19th-century con- Louisiana, thoughts often drift to- with the latest European trends, de- tributors to this canon—including fa- ward bayous filled with stands of tow- termined the usefulness of new ideas miliar figures like John C. Calhoun and ering cypress trees, French-speak- and knowledge to their own endeav- Mary Chesnut and less well-known in- ing Cajuns, foods like jambalaya ors, and incorporated, rejected, and/ dividuals like Louisa McCord and Isaac and crawfish pie, zydeco music, the or modified them as required. Harby—are introduced through bio- LSU Tigers, the French Quarter, This penchant for organization and graphical sketches followed by descrip- and perhaps even Longfellow’s trag- control was influenced by the existence tions of their intellectual production. ic Evangeline. Less often, if rarely, do of “national, postcolonial, and imperi- Proslavery arguments, often credited as those thoughts include images of lep- al” trends in the region. Southerners the most prevalent form of intellectu- rosy. But in 1894, seven leprosy vic- had played a crucial role in creating al expression in the antebellum South, tims left New Orleans bound for an the American nation, a development are here, placed in the wider intellec- abandoned sugar plantation near that had required defeating a colonial tual context of the region; while the Carville, Louisiana, just 15 miles entity whose greatness they aspired to “peculiar institution” shaped Southern south of Baton Rouge, to inaugurate emulate. They thus felt both a certain society and culture, slavery was just the Louisiana Leper Home. At the level of confidence in their endeav- one of the many topics that engaged time, and for years after those first ors at governance and expansion as the energies of Southern intellectu- seven patients arrived in what be- well as anxiety as they implemented als. O’Brien concludes this tome by came known simply as “Carville,” lit- slavery-dependent plans that would reflecting on the experiment in na- tle was known about the disease oth- be judged by their still-admired for- tion-building that a majority of slave- er than that it caused skin lesions, mer colonizers. The tensions between holding states embarked on in 1861, blisters, blindness, and fingers, toes, these two emotions, and the search a choice made not “out of ignorance, and noses to shorten and seemingly for coherence in an ever-changing so- or guilt, or stupidity, or romantic inno- fall off. And that it had no cure. cial milieu, helped to shape the ideas cence” but with the “clarity of mind” Twenty-three years later, in 1917, of early-19th-century Southerners. To born out of decades of vibrant intellec- Congress authorized $250,000 for prove this point, O’Brien divides his tual life in the American South, a re- a national leprosarium to be estab- history into two parts. The first de- gion that nurtured an intellectual tra- lished out of what was the Louisiana

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Leper Home, and as a consequence no future outside of the leprosarium, all victims of leprosy in the U.S. White slowly begins to understand were to be forcibly quarantined at that his time in prison is not simply Carville. Often these sufferers of lep- punishment; it is an opportunity to rosy were treated as prisoners rather change his own life, to discover what than as patients, but despite, or per- is essential to being happy and truly haps because of, the physical and fulfilled. At first terrified of the lep- psychological torment caused by rosy patients and their deformities, their disease and their being shunned White comes to understand their dis- from the larger society, Carville be- ease and that their suffering has borne came a home to those patients. A so- wisdom, a wisdom they freely share. ciety within the hospital formed, ac- Once White’s wife back home de- companied by Mardi Gras parades, clares that she is filing for divorce, he church services, and softball leagues. resolves to actually change—if not Eventually, medical advancements for himself, for his children, whom he suppressed the disease’s advancement cannot bear to lose. Through a better within the patients’ bodies, and in understanding of what it means to suf- the late 1950s the doors to the lepro- fer, White resolves not to do so. He sarium were opened and the patients cannot change the past, but he is de- were free to stay or leave. Nearly ev- termined to change the future. “I felt ery patient chose to stay. privileged to live and work and play For a brief period (1991–1994), mingling with patients there, forging in a place that few had ever seen,” he Carville was also used as a minimum- meaningful relationships with pris- writes. “I was grateful I was impris- security federal prison. During that oners and patients alike, reevaluating oned here, in a leprosarium, where I time, in 1993, Neil White, a maga- his life’s goals as well as his past’s ac- could begin to rebuild my life in a dif- zine entrepreneur who lived on the tions, which had brought him to the ferent way.” Overcoming a fanatical Mississippi Gulf Coast and entertained lowly state of imprisonment. Out of drive to achieve financial success at visions of fame, fortune, and everything this experience comes In the Sanctuary all costs, White achieves the success that accompanies success, pled guilty of Outcasts, a cautionary memoir that that means the most to him—a life to one count of bank fraud. Desperate reads like both a self-reflecting narra- with his two children, and in the pro- to make good on his dreams, for him- tive and a homage to the leprosy pa- cess he has written a touching, some- self and his wife and two young chil- tients who offered him the wisdom times funny, and always compassion- dren, White funded his nascent pub- and friendship that changed his think- ate book that tells the story of those lishing company with generous inves- ing and, ultimately, changed his life. who for so long were exiled to the pe- tors’ money and, eventually, by kiting Entering the prison commit- riphery. In In the Sanctuary of Outcasts checks. By the time White’s financing ted to recapturing his past success- White takes an unflinching look at scheme was uncovered, he was living es once he is released, White begins himself, his hubris, and his misdeeds, the life he had always wanted—and his sentence ruminating on his fu- as if he cannot hide the truth, much he had amassed a debt of hundreds ture business plans and longing for like a leprosy victim cannot hide his of thousands of dollars. Soon after, he the days of starched shirts and fine deformities. “Finally, in a sanctuary for was sentenced to 18 months in a fed- dining. Determined not to change, outcasts,” he writes, “I understood the eral prison. At the conclusion of his just work smarter, White devises a truth. Surrounded by men and wom- sentencing, the presiding judge offered grand scheme to write an exposé on en who could not hide their disfigure- White these words: “Neil, I hope you this strange leprosarium/federal pris- ment, I could see my own.” can make something good come out of on. I would be an undercover report- Neil White has also contribut- this.” What did come out of White’s er, he thinks. Pencil and pad always ed an entry on leprosy to The New sentence was a changed man and a in hand, White takes copious notes Encyclopedia of Southern Culture’s book that contributes significantly to about his fellow inmates. He inter- Science and Medicine volume, which correcting the misconceptions of the views everyone, patients and prison- will be published in 2012. He lives in disease leprosy, otherwise known as ers alike, who will talk to him about Oxford, Mississippi, where he owns a Hanson’s disease. their experience. He is determined small publishing company. White spent the next year in the that his year and a half in prison will federal prison that conjoined with not be wasted. Jimmy Thomas the national leprosarium at Carville, Surrounded by so many who have

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 21 Burke’s SouthernBook Store, Foodways Oldest in Registerthe South This is the first of an occasional series on independent bookstores in the American South.

Burke’s Book Store, which has survived the Depression and two World Wars, was begun in 1875 as a family business and stayed that way for three generations. Walter Burke Sr. opened Burke’s Book Store on Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee, shortly after the Civil War, selling books, newspapers, slates, tin toys, and then, beginning in 1946, public and parochial school textbooks. Bill Burke, who was born above the bookstore, followed in his father’s footsteps and, in 1950, began selling used and an- tiquarian books. In the 1960s, during that great purge known as Urban Renewal, (above) Pictured above in 2000 at the Burke’s moved eastward to 634 Poplar 135th anniversary of Burke’s Book Store among the pawnshops, and the orig- are three generations of Burke’s owners: inal Main Street building and sur- Harriette Beeson (owner 1984–2000), Patsy Burke (widow of Bill Burke, the rounding neighborhood were razed. third and final Burke to own the store), In the 1970s, after the death of Bill Cheryl and Corey Mesler (owners 2000 Burke, Burke’s Book Store was sold to present). Not pictured is Diana Crump to Diana Crump. She, in turn, sold it (owner 1978–1984). to Harriette Beeson in the mid ’80s. (left) The original Burke’s building on Beeson moved the store in 1988 to its Main Street third location at 1719 Poplar. In 2000 husband and wife Corey and Cheryl Mesler, who met in the store and titles on art, music, food, fashion, kids, worked there for over a decade, bought reading, literary journals, social com- Burke’s. In 2007 the Meslers made the mentary, and local interest, as well as the decision to sell the property at 1719 Sunday New York Times. Burke’s still sells Poplar and move the store to its fourth textbooks to five local schools. (and hopefully final!) location in the In the last 25 years the store has played vibrant Cooper-Young neighborhood. city (Memphis Flyer’s Best Used Book host to a wide range of writers, includ- The store has expanded and changed Store, 10 years running) and recent- ing John Grisham, Richard Ford, Ann over the years and now encompasses ly stepping into the online bookselling Beattie, Anne Rice, Bobbie Ann Mason, “the best of the old, the latest of the arena to offer wares to the world. Kaye Gibbons, Peter Guralnick, Peter new, and hard to find collectibles.” Burke’s continues to offer new fiction, Carey, Lee Smith, Ralph Abernathy, In the last two years since the move, Southern literature, Memphis history, Archie Manning, Rick Barthelme, Burke’s has expanded its used book se- and paperback classics. The store recent- Charles Baxter, Robert Olen Butler, Bill lection to become one of the best in the ly added a magazine rack, featuring 50 Wyman, and many others. Today, muddling toward the future, Burke’s Book Store’s recently launched newsletter Hound Dog under its masthead the Meslers keep the old flame burn- uses the Groucho Marx quotation “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. ing, still cognizant of their role in the Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” community, reenergizing the store’s In addition to book news and reports on readings and other activities at Burke’s, once semiactive publishing arm, still Hound Dog offers a “Poem for Monday” and “Inside Indie Bookstores,” a series of remembering the signed W. C. Handy interviews with “entrepreneurs who represent the last link in the chain that con- autobiography, the book bound in skin, nects writers with their intended audience.” The second issue (March 15, 2010) the first editionUncle Tom’s Cabin. It’s featured an interview with Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books in Oxford, a heady business, a calling, a place of Mississippi. To read Hound Dog, go to www.burkesbooks.com. sympathetic magic.

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“Doraville, touch of country in the city Doraville, it ain’t much, but it’s home Friends of mine say I oughta move to New York New York’s fine, but it ain’t Doraville” —Atlanta Rhythm Section, “Doraville” SFA Field Trip: A Short History of Buford Highway In June of 2010, participants on an SFA The South had not been a major des- Field Trip explored Buford Highway, Tore Olsson tination for immigrants arriving to the Atlanta’s multicultural corridor. Enjoy ex- country in the late 19th and early 20th cerpts from a paper on Buford Highway as centuries. While a handful of Greek, idea and reality, given on this occasion by Jewish, and Italian immigrants had set- Tore Olsson of the University of Georgia. tled in Atlanta, they lived close to the city’s center and had integrated quick- I first visited Atlanta’s Buford Highway ly into the white mainstream. Now out in 2005, when I came to Georgia to begin in Chamblee and Doraville, many miles work on a history PhD. As an immigrant from downtown, the population was myself, born and raised in Sweden, I de- even more homogenous. Unlike south- cided to study migration history first and ern Dekalb County, which was home was quickly told that if I wanted to un- to a growing black middle class, north- derstand recent immigration to Georgia, ern Dekalb was a predominantly white, I would have to visit the Buford Highway working-class suburb. Corridor. Having spent much of my Much of that would change during childhood in Boston, an old immigrant the 1970s. As more and more white city, I assumed that Atlanta must some- Atlanta residents fled the city for dis- what resemble that model—bounded, tant suburbs far outside of the 285 pe- ethnic communities segregated from but rimeter, northern Dekalb began to look located close to the city’s business center. resemble that of 30 years ago. As re- more like a part of Atlanta than ever I was first confused and then surprised by cently as 1974 the local Southern rock before. Additionally, as a product of the what Buford Highway presented. Instead band Atlanta Rhythm Section recorded oil crisis and industrial decline of the of seeing Chinatowns and Little Italys, I their first hit single titled “Doraville”— 1970s, GM and other large employers saw a vast, messy, and hopelessly complex a somewhat cheesy ode to their home- in the area began cutting jobs. Many grid of Mexican, Korean, and Vietnamese town of the same name, a place that is residents responded by leaving north- groceries and restaurants— to name only now one of the central immigrant hubs ern Dekalb. As a result, both Chamblee a few of the nationalities that populate along Buford Highway. But not back and Doraville lost nearly 20 percent of the highway’s many strip malls and shop- then. “A touch of country in the city,” their populations during the ’70s. Many ping centers. And not only was every- they sang of Doraville in 1974, with houses, apartments, and storefronts thing mixed together, but this epicenter “red clay hills” and “rednecks drink- were vacant for years, especially along of multicultural Atlanta was located no- ing wine on Sunday.” It’s not that they Buford Highway, but soon a handful of where near downtown—but was nearly forgot to mention the Cambodian gro- new residents began to arrive with little suburban, more than 10 miles away from ceries in town; those places simply did fanfare—particularly a new class of pro- the city center of Five Points. As I first not exist in 1974. It’s how the stores got fessional, middle-class immigrants from saw, smelled, heard, and, of course, tasted there is what I want to explore. Latin America and Asia. A milestones Buford Highway, I realized I had found a Buford Highway is actually a very in the making of Buford Highway was unique place—a place joining both the long road, about 30 miles long, be- perhaps 1976, the year that the Havana past and the future, the South and the ginning near Lindbergh Center in Sandwich Shop opened, arugably the globe. Buckhead and running northeast deep first “ethnic” restaurant to open its A brief history of that place will indi- into Gwinnett County. The section doors on Buford Highway. cate how it came to look, smell, sound, located in northern Dekalb County is A true turning point in Buford and taste as it does today. Surprisingly, home to hundreds of immigrant-owned the Buford Highway of 2010 does not businesses that made it famous. continued on page 25

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, VISIT US AT OUR WEB SITE: www.southernfoodways.org or call Julie Pickett at 662.915.5993 or via e-mail at [email protected] Kate Medley continued from 23 than downtown, settling in Chamblee and Doraville made economic sense. Highway’s history came in the 1980s, To ease the painful transition of set- when a sort of “perfect storm” of both tling in a city that had no established eth- global and very local factors came togeth- nic communities, these new Atlantans er to remake northern Dekalb County. sought familiar foods and environments, Mexico, for one, underwent a disastrous trying to recreate the worlds they had economic crisis in the early 1980s, as for- known. For entrepreneurs among them, eign debt and oil speculation shattered this became thriving business, and the the peso and destroyed the livelihoods once bleak and vacant strip malls along of millions of Mexicans, many of whom Buford Highway underwent a sort of re- now looked to the United States as the naissance. Slowly at first, but more and only alternative for survival. In Southeast more commonly, native-born landlords Asia repressive regimes spawned millions and developers began leasing and even of refugees, especially in Cambodia, Laos, selling store space to ethnic grocers and and Vietnam. In 1986 the U.S. reformed restaurateurs. For the first time in near- its immigration and refugee laws, milita- ly 20 years, the Buford Highway corri- rizing the border with Mexico to discour- dor was thriving and bustling with new age undocumented migration and, in do- life. But this was no traditional, insular ing so, effectively encouraged permanent immigrant neighborhood—this chaot- settlement in the U.S. Finally, the regions ic, semiurban, multicultural strip mall where Asian and Latin American immi- explosion was in its own strange way Housing speculation and gentrification grants had traditionally settled in the unique to the South. projects also drove up prices in some ar- U.S.—California and Texas—also suf- Doraville, Chamblee, and other sur- eas of Buford Highway, forcing out many fered an economic downturn, so bad that rounding cities continued demograph- working-class immigrants. And many arriving immigrants began to look to new ic transformation throughout the 1990s successful entrepreneurs also left the area destinations. One such destination was and into the new century. By 2000, after establishing themselves, moving out Atlanta. nearly 65 percent of Chamblee’s popu- to Gwinnett, Cobb, Cherokee, and sur- In Atlanta the Buford Highway lation was foreign-born, as well as 45 rounding counties, hoping to own their Corridor offered duplexes and apart- percent of Doraville’s. Hundreds of im- own homes and escape Buford’s chaotic ments, MARTA, Atlanta’s rapid transit migrant-owned businesses lined Buford bustle, often taking their businesses with rail system, and close proximity to the Highway, catering both to recent arrivals them into the suburbs. booming suburbs of Cobb and Gwinnett and native black and white Southerners. The Buford Highway remains, thank- County, where most of the construc- However, the xenophobia that followed fully. Its continued existence is a testa- tion and landscaping work was located. the September 11th attacks fueled some ment to a transformed Atlanta, a living, With the demand for immigrant labor hostility towards newcomers, as did the breathing museum whose admission fee being in the northern suburbs rather economic downturn of 2007 and 2008. is affordably low, but whose gift shop and food court are the real attractions. To me, Kate Medley Buford Highway is reminiscent of Sweet Auburn, the historic black business dis- trict of central Atlanta, at the peak of its importance and vitality. Buford Highway also reminds me that Atlanta’s historic success has always laid in its adaptabil- ity, and of its citizens’ ability to human- ize the often hollow and empty slogans dreamed up by its boosters and politicians. Atlanta the “international city” was not born in a corporate boardroom or public relations office downtown, but in a kitchen on Buford Highway, in a Mexican, Korean, or Vietnamese restaurant built on those same “red clay hills” that the Atlanta Rhythm Section me- morialized in their 1974 ode to Doraville. When we taste Buford Highway, I hope that some of that history, a history both difficult and optimistic, will emerge in its Harold Shinn is the president of the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market in Doraville, Georgia. many flavors. MIAL Awards Gala

The 31st Annual Awards of the Margaret Anne Robbins Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) were presented on June 5, 2010, at an evening banquet at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. William Ferris received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his life’s work in the field of Southern Studies. A Special Achievement Award was presented for The Passions of Walter Anderson: A Dramatic Celebration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Artist, a multime- dia collaboration of Jimmyle Listenbee, Amanda Malloy, Kevin Malloy, Alex Mauney, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Jared Spears, and Michael Barnett. Frederick Barthelme of Hattiesburg received the Fiction Award for his novel Waveland. Charles W. Eagles of Oxford accepted the Nonfiction Award for The Price of Defiance: James Meredith (above) MIAL 2010 Award winners are (from left) William Ferris (Lifetime and the Integration of Ole Miss; and D. C. Achievement), Caroline Herring (Contemporary/Popular Music Composition), Charles Berry of Oxford accepted the Poetry Crossley (Visual Arts), Michael Loyd Young (Photography), Shandy Phillips (Classical/ Award for Hamlet Off Stage. In the Concert Music Composition), Charles Visual Arts category, Charles Crossley Eagles (Nonfiction), and D. C. Berry (Poetry). Not pictured is Frederick of McComb won for Charles Crossley: Barthelme (Fiction). Textures, Shapes, and Forms of Spirits. The Photography Award went to (left) Winners of MIAL’s 2010 Special Michael Loyd Young of Missouri, Texas, Achievement Award are (from left) for his book Blues, Booze, and BBQ. Alex Mauney, Jimmyle Listenbee, Mark Wiggs (MIAL president), Rhona In the Musical Composition Awards, Justice-Malloy, Kevin Malloy, and Caroline Herring of Decatur, Georgia, Amanda Malloy. Not pictured are Jared won the Contemporary/Popular cat- Spears and Michael Barnett. egory for her CD Golden Apples of the Bridget Pieschel Sun; and Shandy Phillips of Arlington, Massachusetts, won the Classical/ of her colleagues, Frederick Barthelme Nan and Mike Sanders, Sandra and Tom Concert category for Sonata Number 2 and D. C. Berry, at the event. Shellnut, and Leila Wynn. for Violin and Piano. Later in the afternoon the annu- Among the founders of the Mississippi MIAL President Mark Wiggs al Membership Meeting of MIAL was Institute of Arts and Letters were Noel of Jackson presided at the Awards held in the Community Room of the Polk, Aubrey Lucas, William Winter, Ceremony; and Richard Howorth of Mississippi Museum of Art. Officers for Cora Norman, and Keith Dockery Oxford, Mississippi, was the master the coming year were elected and include McLean. MIAL’s juried competition is of ceremonies. Each award winner re- Bridget Smith Pieschel of Columbus, unique in Mississippi. All judges are cho- ceived a monetary award and a Wolfe president; David Beckley of Holly sen from outside the state and are prom- Bird, created by artist Elizabeth (Bebe) Springs, vice-president; Margaret Anne inent in their respective fields. Only Wolfe of Wolfe Studio in Jackson, Robbins of Pontotoc, secretary; Jan members of MIAL may nominate candi- Mississippi. Taylor of Jackson, treasurer; and Nancy dates in the awards categories, but mem- Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson hosted Guice of Laurel, archivist. Mark Wiggs bership is open to all. To find out more an event the afternoon of the Awards of Jackson will serve as past president. about joining MIAL and supporting the Celebration that featured Caroline Patrons for MIAL and its awards for arts in Mississippi, go to the Institute’s Herring, Michael Loyd Young, Charles 2009–2010 were Ann and Dale Abadie, Web site at www.ms-arts-letters.org. Eagles, and William Ferris, who per- the Gertrude C. Ford Foundation, Jack formed, read, spoke, and signed their Kotz, Ella and Aubrey Lucas, the fam- Mary McKenzie Thompson works. Two-time MIAL award winner ily of Keith Dockery McLean, McCarty Angela Ball also read from the works Pottery and Gardens, Mississippi Quarterly,

Page 26 Summer 2010 The Southern Register Southern Literary Trail Meets to Discuss Trailfest 2011 Susan Perry On July 17, just prior to the 37th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, the members of the Southern Literary Trail board of directors and its advisors met in the Lyceum on the University of Mississippi campus to discuss plans for Trailfest 2011. The Southern Literary Trail—a tri-state collaboration of 18 Southern towns that celebrates 20th- century Southern writers and play- wrights who were inspired by their communities—sponsors the annual event. Trailfest 2011 will open with the Carson McCullers Conference in Columbus, Georgia, on February 17, 2011, and Officers, directors, and advisers of the Southern Literary Trail who gathered on the conclude with the Alabama Writers’ University of Mississippi campus are (back row, from left) Colby Kullman (Mississippi), Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama, Bridget Pieschel (Mississippi), Steve Pieschel (Mississippi), Bert Hitchcock (Alabama), on May 8, 2011. Barbara Carpenter (Mississippi), William Gantt (Alabama), Jimmy Thomas (Mississippi); (front row, from left) Carol Puckett (Alabama), Ann Abadie (Mississippi), During Trailfest’s debut in March and Cathy Fussell (Georgia). Not pictured is Susan Perry (Alabama). 2009, Trail communities presented plays, movies, tours, and panel discussions that explored the masterworks of Southern literature and honored the writers of the Trail. After its presentation in Mobile, Exposures and Reflections (a Thousands of visitors attended Trailfest events in Alabama, title taken from Welty’s text about the photos) will travel to Georgia, and Mississippi. The success of the celebration, the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University in Troy, Alabama, the nation’s first tri-state literary festival, established the the Atlanta History Center, the Carnegie Library Museum in Southern Literary Trail as a permanent feature of the south- Decatur, Alabama, and the Mississippi University for Women eastern landscape. Gallery in Columbus, Mississippi, where it will conclude during the 2011 Welty Symposium. The exhibition’s presentation at Events for Trailfest 2011 will include: the Atlanta History Center will be a special feature of Trailfest • Carson McCullers: An Interdisciplinary Conference and 2011 and a tribute to Women’s History Month in March 2011. 94th Birthday Celebration, Columbus State University, Eudora Welty once said, “Travel itself is part of some longer Columbus, Georgia, February 17–19 continuity.” The Southern Literary Trail maps landmarks across • Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration in Natchez, a region that is home to timeless American stories, and many Mississippi, February 24–27 of the uniquely Southern landmarks along the Trail are year- • Ralph Ellison Lecture, Tuskegee University, March 16 round destinations. More information on the Southern Literary • Mississippi Delta Literary Tour, March 20–23 Trail and Trailfest 2011 can be found online at www.southern- • Oxford Conference for the Book, University of Mississippi, literarytrail.org. Oxford, Mississippi, March 24–26 • Tennessee Williams 100th Birthday Celebration in Jimmy Thomas Columbus, Mississippi, March 21–27 • Spring Pilgrimage of Homes in Columbus, Mississippi, March 28–April 9 The conference “Startling Figures: A Celebration of the • Flannery O’Connor Conference, Georgia College and Legacy of Flannery O’Connor” will take place April 13– State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, April 13–16 16, 2011, at Georgia College and State University in • Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery, Alabama, April 16 Milledgeville, Georgia. Call for papers: Send abstract of approximately 500 A traveling exhibition, Eudora Welty: Exposures and words to Bruce Gentry, English, Campus Box 44, GCSU, Reflections, will also be part of Trailfest 2011. The exhibi- Milledgeville, GA 31061 by the postmark deadline of tion is a collection of Depression-era photographs taken by November 1, 2010. the writer and compiled into her book One Time, One Place. Anyone interested in serving as a session chair should Jacob Laurence of the Museum of Mobile is curating the exhi- send a resume to Gentry at the same address. bition for a debut in early September 2010. A special presen- For information about the program, registration, tation for destinations along the Southern Literary Trail, the accommodations, and other details, consult the Web site project has received the full grant support and backing of the www.gcst/edu.startlingfigures. Alabama Humanities Foundation.

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 27 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2010 “Faulkner and Film” Bruce Newman The 37th annual Faulkner and Yokna patawpha Conference, “Faulkner and Donald Kartiganer welcomes participants at opening session of the 2010 Faulkner Film,” began where most previous as- and Yoknapatawpha Conference sessments of that subject have come to their well-deserved end. An anecdote- laced history consisting of Faulkner’s complaints about Hollywood—“the only place on earth where you can get stabbed in the back while you’re climb- ing a ladder”—and Hollywood’s compa- rable reservations about Faulkner, epit- omized in the Coen brothers’ portray- al of him in the movie Barton Fink as an alcoholic who wrote neither screen- plays nor fiction, came gradually unrav- eled in five days of lectures, panel discussions, and nine films. What for several decades has been re- garded as a waste of time and talent for both Faulkner and Hollywood turns out to have been an experience that bestowed important benefits on the writer and the challenging Faulkner readers to revis- laborative nature of the entire film-mak- art of film-making in the United States it the whole question of how Faulkner ing process. Deborah Barker exemplified and elsewhere. Faulkner learned from and film engage and interact with each such collaboration by bringing together film, and film learned from Faulkner. other. Robert Jackson provided a kind of Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary, a film adapt- Robert Hamblin presented the first model for measuring the relative input ing it (The Story of Temple Drake), and a paper of the conference, “Faulkner and of original fiction, screenplay, and filmic subsequent film,Sanctuary , which built Hollywood: A Call for Reassessment,” adaptation by stressing the intensely col- on the original novel, the first movie adaptation, and Faulkner’s sequel, the novel Requiem for a Nun. Julian Murphet added a dimension to the discussion by focusing on how Faulkner was not only influenced by his experience in Hollywood, but used in his fiction filmic techniques that go beyond the movies being made at the time. Allison Rittmayer brought the process still further forward by point- ing out the influence of Faulkner’s fiction on the French director Jean-Luc Godard, whose films make use of char- acteristic Faulknerian techniques of narrative experiment, manipulation of genres, and fragmentation. In addition to the contributions of these and other speakers, nine films were shown: one made from Faulkner’s cowritten screenplay, The Road to Glory, and eight others adapted from Longtime Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference participants with University of his novels and short stories. Perhaps the Kansas connections are (from left) Jennie Joiner, Theresa Towner, Jim Carothers, Colby most inventive, and certainly the least Kullman, Chuck and Nancy Peek, and Beverly Carothers.

Page 28 Summer 2010 The Southern Register 11th Annual Faulkner Fringe Festival

Bruce Newman Dedicated to James Gray Watson James B. Carothers opened this year’s Faulkner Fringe Festival by dedicating the evening’s program to the memory of James Gray Watson (1939–2010), the Frances W. O’Hornett Professor of Literature at the University of Tulsa. A Faulknerian and great champion of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Watson was a master teacher who found that Faulkner’s fiction enabled him and his students to use their abilities to their absolute best. Inspired by Edinburgh’s Fringe Theatre Festival and Alaska’s Last Frontier Theatre Participants studying Faulkner Conference’s fringe program, the 2010 Faulkner Fringe Festival made way for seven Conference program booklet presentations ranging from dramatic readings of Faulkner’s fiction to a photography exhibit of Faulkner’s Oxford to memoirs, personal stories, an essay, and a poem—all known, of these was the 1991 Russian in some way concerning Faulkner. Each participant was allowed up to 10 minutes film Noga, made from the short story of open mike time at Southside Gallery on Monday night, July 19th, beginning at “The Leg,” subtitled in English, and in- 10:00 p.m. Vickie and Wil Cook’s gallery, which like Square Books has become an troduced by Ivan Delazari. artistic center for the Oxford community, was crowded with approximately 80 folks A special event at the conference when the program began, with close to 40 remaining until the last presentation was Stephen Railton’s announcement concluded at 11:20 p.m. After a full day of scholarly papers, they were anticipating and sampling of a major online proj- something short, light, and entertaining. They were not disappointed. ect, Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Betty Harrington (her 37th Faulkner Conference) and George Kehoe, two of Archive, that allows users simultane- Oxford’s finest actors, then read a short scene fromThe Sound and the Fury involving ously to read and hear Faulkner’s class- Caddy Compson and Quentin Compson. In the famous scene at the branch, sister room interviews of 1957–58. The ar- and brother discuss mutual suicide. Caddy is pregnant and has no husband. Trying to chive includes a great deal of material figure out what to do, Quentin offers to kill her and himself, but he lacks the fortitu- not in the published volume Faulkner de to do so. Harrington and Kehoe brought to life the power of Faulkner’s prose. in the University. See http://faulkner.lib. Deborah Freeland, whose photography from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s was virginia.edu. on display at Southside, explained that it had been over 30 years since she signed Other events included a University out a camera from the photo lab on campus and Bill Martin had rolled off some Museum exhibition of Mitchell Alan black and white film for her to use. With the photographs she took at that time now Wright’s Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” a memories, she noted that some are sharp and clear while others show the dust and series of paintings inspired by Faulkner’s scratches of age. Since most of the negatives from that time have been lost, with short story; Teaching Faulkner ses- only the prints remaining, she decided leave them as she found them. They bring sions, conducted by James Carothers, us closer to image of an Oxford Faulkner had known in his last years. (He died in Charles Peek, Terrell Tebbets, and 1962.) Theresa Towner; guided tours of Oxford John and Christine Smith then performed an appendix to their song “William

Architecture, New Albany and Ripley, Colby Kullman and the Mississippi Delta; a presentation on collecting Faulkner by Seth Berner; a picnic at Rowan oak, marked by an announcement by Leadership Lafayette of the Rowan Oak east lawn restoration; and “Faulkner on the Fringe,” hosted by Colby Kullman and the Southside Gallery, in which conference registrants perform riffs of their own on Faulkner’s life and work. Although the question is often raised as to what, after 37 conferences, is left to say about Faulkner, “Faulkner and Film” established once again that the enormous range and ongoing relevance of his work is limited only by our own capacities to explore them.

Donald Kartiganer Four Fringe speakers are (from left) Olivia Milch (Yale), Deanna Roberts (William Carey University), and John and Christine Smith (Aurora, California).

The Southern Register Summer 2010 Page 29 continued from 29 graphs of this handsome couple whose wearing Bermuda shorts, and being relationship extended over many years. happy. The kids were young. The little Faulkner Comes a Fur Piece with the Olivia Milch, a graduate student girl was probably five, the boys up to age Rolling Stones.” Once again this year, from Yale University, read an assign- 10 or 11. I was walking to them. One of the Smiths mixed outrageous come- ment she wrote for a professor who the kids noticed the statue of Faulkner dy, theater of the absurd dialogue, and asked students to define the importance in front of City Hall. ‘Look,’ he said. ‘A musical parody to produce a crowd- of reading Faulkner in their lives; and man with a pipe.’ ‘William Faulkner,’ I pleasing entertainment. Deanna Roberts, an undergraduate from said. The man, looking at the children, Shirley Perry then spoke of her two William Carey University, performed a said, ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ ‘That’s short personal encounters with Mr. poem about Faulkner that had been in- Ernest Hemingway,’ I said. By then he Faulkner—one involving one of his lec- spired by coming to her first Faulkner was totally confused. Hadn’t I just said tures at the University of Virginia and and Yoknapatawpha Conference. it was William Faulkner? ‘Oh,’ he said, the other focusing on a dog adopted by Milly Moorhead West brought the ‘Is that who . . . ?’ By then I was on my the Faulkners. Both of these accounts program to a conclusion with her way.” may be found in her memoir My Life as narrative “What Happened Today.” Her Diversity reigned once again at the a Spy and Other Grand Adventures, to be story: “Today after yoga, I came to the annual Faulkner Fringe Festival with published in November and celebrated Square to pick up some framed photos, Faulkner fans eager to sign up in advan- with a reading at Off Square Books. then went to Ajax to meet a friend who ce for next year’s program. Thanks to Nancy Ashley, a Mississippian who needed help with a writing sample for Marianne Steinsvik whose idea of a now lives in Dallas, told the story of a job application. Then, out of habit, Faulkner Fringe Festival came to life 11 Faulkner’s long-term love relationship I walked around the Square instead years ago. with Meta Carpenter, Howard Hawks’s of directly back to my car. I noticed secretary and script girl. The dramatic four kids in front of City Hall prancing Colby H. Kullman presentation was complete with photo- around their father. He was maybe 40,

CONTRIBUTORS

Mark Camarigg is the former assis- Jennifer Lawrence received her BA award-winning novels including Sources tant editor and current publications in Southern Studies in May 2009 and of Light, Cashay, and In My Mother’s manager for Living Blues magazine. now teaches in Tunica, Mississippi. House. She teaches at the University Tina H. Hahn is the communications Robert Luckett is assistant professor of Evansville, in Indiana, and will be specialist for University Development of history and director of the Margaret a Fulbright professor of English at the and the University of Mississippi Walker Alexander National Research University of Pécs, in Hungary, during Foundation. She has been writing Center for the Study of the 20th-cen- the fall 2010 semester. about the University and its loy- tury African American at Jackson Panny Flautt Mayfield, an award- al alumni and friends for almost two State University. winning photographer and journal- decades. Sally Cassady Lyon works at the ist, is director of public relations at Donald M. Kartiganer is Howry Center, as the director’s assistant. Coahoma Community College in Professor of Faulkner Studies Emeritus She is a Gulfport native and Sewanee Clarksdale, Mississippi. at the University of Mississippi graduate. Ted Ownby, director of the Center, and director of the Faulkner and Xaris A. Martínez is a graduate of holds a joint appointment in Southern Yoknapatawpha Conference. the University of California, Los Studies and history. Colby H. Kullman is profes- Angeles, and a second-year gradu- Angela Stewart serves as the sor of English at the University of ate student in Southern Studies. Her Archivist of the Margaret Walker Mississippi. Among his publications research interests include the reli- Alexander National Research Center are Theatre Companies of the World gious and intellectual life of the ante- for the Study of the 20th-century and articles on Tennessee Williams bellum South. African American at Jackson State and other modern dramatists. Margaret McMullan is the author of six University.

Page 30 Summer 2010 The Southern Register Teardrop Film to Be Featured at Williams Festival October 15–16

The 18th annual Mississippi of Teardrop’s heroine Fisher Delta Tennessee Williams Willow with Tennessee’s oth- Festival in Clarksdale prom- er legendary ladies from the ises an exciting kickoff to the Delta: Blanche DuBois, Alma 2011 Williams Centennial Winemiller, Lady Torrence, Year with actress and director and Maggie the Cat. Jodie Markell talking about Kenneth Holditch will deliv- her passion for the playwright er the conference keynote ad- and presenting her film of dress, and Colby Kullman will his previously unproduced moderate the panel of scholars, 1957 screenplay The Loss of a including English professors Teardrop Diamond. Ralph Voss and Ann Fisher- Featured at the October 15– Wirth; fiction writer Anna 16, 2010, festival sponsored Baker, theatrical producer by Coahoma Community Robert Canon, and film critic College, Markell will speak and screenwriter Coop Cooper. about her experiences directing Actors performing on stages the work set in the Mississippi and porch plays include Erma Delta and Memphis during Duricko, Johnny McPhail, the 1920s. She also will talk Alice Walker, Marissa Duricko, about her lifelong interest in Tim Brown, Jeff Glickman, and Tennessee Williams that be- Sherrye Williams. gan, at age 15, when she por- Rehearsing to take center trayed Laura Wingfield in a stage with monologues and high school production of The scenes, fledgling high school Glass Menagerie. actors across Mississippi will “By the time I was 17, I had compete in the festival’s elite read everything by Tennessee drama competition for $3,000 Williams that I could find, in cash prizes for their school and I had also been inspired by Elia dle the unique rhythm and musicality drama departments. Markell will ad- Kazan’s classic films of A Streetcar Named of Williams’s dialogue. Her first choice dress the students, and Duricko will Desire and my favorite, Baby Doll,” said for the role of the play’s central char- lead them through an acting workshop. Markell, who grew up in Memphis and acter, Fisher Willow, was Bryce Dallas Festival activities, receptions, din- studied the adaptation of literature to Howard, whom Markell describes as ners, and porch plays laced with blues the stage and screen at Northwestern “the best of her generation.” The cast- and gospel music and Southern cuisine University before moving to New York ing of Oscar-winning actress Ellen take place in Clarksdale’s Tennessee to study acting at Circle in the Square Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Chris Evans, Williams neighborhood. Theater School. There she was intro- Will Patton, and Mamie Gummer soon Produced by Coahoma Community duced to The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, followed. Teardrop opened in New York College and supported by grants from which Williams wrote for Kazan, who and Los Angeles in December 2009 and the Mississippi Arts Commission, the never produced it. has subsequently been shown through- Mississippi Humanities Council, and Markell became fascinated by out the country. the Rock River Foundation, the fes- Teardrop and decided to make it her de- Expected to generate additional in- tival is free and open to the public. but as the director of a feature film. (She terest and intensity during the confer- Reservations are required for meals. For had previously directed short films, in- ence are interactions of scholars and festival updates, visit www.coahomacc. cluding the award-winning Why I Live actors participating in panel discussions edu/twilliams or telephone Coahoma’s at the P.O. based on Eudora Welty’s sto- and presenting readings from Williams Public Relations Department: ry by that title. plays that continue to explore influenc- 662-621-4157. Markell says she realized she need- es of the Mississippi Delta on his works. ed a cast of “thoroughbreds” to han- Interesting also will be the measure Panny Flautt Mayfield

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Faulkner’s Mississippi: Land into Civil Rights in the Delta Legend Journalist Curtis Wilkie in conversa- Transforms the fiction of William tion with Patti Carr Black, Emmett Faulkner’s mythical Jefferson and Till’s cousin Wheeler Parker, Sumner Yoknapatawpha into the reality of residents Frank Mitchener and Betty Oxford and Lafayette County, and Bill Pearson, Henry Outlaw of the Mississippi, with quotations from Delta Center for Culture and Learning Faulkner’s writings correlated with at Delta State University, and former appropriate scenes. The first motion Mississippi governor William F. Winter. pictures inside Faulkner’s home are ht Courtesy Photo March 29, 2006. presented along with rare still photo- Color, 60 minutes. graphs of the writer. Narrated by DVD1148 ...... $20.00 Joseph Cotton. Script by Evans

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“AreYou Walkin’ with Me?” Sister Thea Bowman, William Faulkner, and African American Culture William Faulkner Stamp Ceremony Overview of A 22-cent Literary Arts programs Sister Commemorative stamp honoring Thea presented William Faulkner was issued by the at the annual United States Postal Service during a Faulkner ceremony at the University of Conference Mississippi on August 3, 1987. The from 1980 DVD of this program includes remarks through 1989. by author Eudora Welty, Faulkner’s Produced by daughter, Jill Faulkner Summers, and Lisa N. others. Howorth, Color, 34 minutes. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, 1990. DVD1231 ...... $25.00 Color, 30 minutes. Friends ...... $22.50 DVD 1016 ...... $25.00 Friends ...... $22.50

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