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rom the page to the stage and screen, this year's Oxford Conference for the Book celebrates the written word Fand its various incarnations April 11-14, 2002, on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. This year's conference, the ninth annual, is dedicated to Tennessee Williams, who was born and spent his formative years in Mississippi, then went on to become one of America's fore- most playwrights.To honor Williams's literary legacy and to demonstrate the transendence of the written word, the con- ference will play host to playwrights and drama critics in addition to the usual roster of novelists, journalists, and poets. The weekend will also include a gathering of previous writers in residence from a program funded by John and Renee Grisham and a screening of Big Bad Love, the film based on short stories by local author Larry Brown. The conference kicks off early this year with a special book conference edition of Thacker Mountain Radio on Thursday, Aprilil. The hour-long live radio show will feature music by the house band and a visiting group, plus readings by Australian novelist Richard Flanagan, making his third conference appearance, and poet Beth Ann Fennelly, who has been living in Oxford since August with her husband, current Grisham Writer in Residence Tom Franklin. Following the radio show, a special screening of Big Bad Love, the new film by actor-director Arliss Howard, based on stories by Larry Brown, will be held in Fulton Chapel at 8:do p.m.A panel with Brown, Howard, and Debra Winger, one of the film's stars, will take place prior to the screening; a recep- Tennessee Williams, Photography Collection, Harry Ransom tion will follow. The movie, which was filmed in Oxford and Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at the surrounding area, follows a Vietnam vet as he struggles to Austin. The above photograph of Tennessee Williams is realize his dream of becoming a writer. reproduced on posters and T-shirts available from the Center by Friday, April 12, kicks off in traditional fashion with a welcome calling 800-390-3527. by the mayor of Oxford (a new one this year, Square Books owner

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The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 1 Southern Register.1iJ DIRECTOR'S COLUMN Published Quarterly by This year will be a special one for all of us associated with the Center. The Center for the Study of Southern Culture We began our work 25 years ago, and a quarter-century anniversary gives pause for The University of Mississippi reflection, for considering the past, present, and future. We hope to involve our Telephone: 662-915-5993 friends in Center activities more than ever before, and we will soon have a calendar of Fax: 662-915-5814 events for the coming year. E-mail: [email protected] The Center formally began with a Eudora Welty Symposium in November 1977. Internet: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south Ann Abadie was acting director then, with Bill Ferris, our founding director, arriving IN THIS ISSUE in 1979. I joined them in 1981 to work on the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. We Winter 2001 began publishing Living Blues® in 1983, and other Center projects soon followed. From the beginning, our academic work anchored other Center activities. A National 1 Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book Endowment for the Humanities grant helped us implement the distinctive, interdisci- 2 Director's Column plinary Southern Studies curriculum. We began with a bachelor of arts degree, adding 2 In Memoriam the master's in 1986. Our core faculty have always provided leadership for Center pro- 3 Washington Scholars Institute jects, and an extended network of faculty in the College of Liberal Arts assist with our 3 McKeeNamed 2001Humanities Teacher academic program and other Center activities. 6 2002 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference One of our most important support groups is the Friends of the Center. Our 7 Saks FellowshipsAvailable newsletter, Southern Register, connects us to 30,000 people, and we depend on each of 8 Center Ventress Order Trustees you for moral and financial support. I often receive letters from newsletter readers who 9 Student Photographers to Exhibit in want to know more about Center work and ways they can assist. Jim and Madeleine Gammill Gallery McMullan, chairs of our Advisory Committee who helped establish two Southern 10 Southern Studies Alumni Studies faculty positions, learned of the Center's potential through reading the 10 New Season of Thacker Mountain Radio newsletter and becoming Friends of the Center. 11 DocumentaryProject on FreedomRiders The financial contributions that readers can make through our Friends group pro- 12 Caroline Herring's New CD vide the operating funds to enable us to support publication of the newsletter, provide 12 Special Collections to Offer Williams assistantships to graduate students, sponsor the Oxford Conference for the Book, and Exhibition work on countless other projects. 13 Ann Patchett's "Imagination Travel" 15 Reading the South: Reviews & Notes Tennessee Williams, who is being honored at this year's Oxford Conference for the 20 2003 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Book, had a character say that she depended "on the kindness of strangers." For 25 Conference Call for Papers years, the Center has educated students, published books and magazines, held confer- 21 Southern FoodwaysAlliance News ences that encouraged significant research, and generally nurtured the study of 23 Historic Delta School Being Saved Southern culture-all partly through the generosity of, not strangers, but friends. We 23 Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule regard all of you as friends because YQU know of Center projects and appreciate our 24 Students Help Clean Old Cemetery contributions.We hope you will enjoy knowing about the Center's activities this spe- 24 A Note to Those Interested in cial year and help us build a strong foundation for our future growth. Traditional Country Music CHARLES REAGAN WILSON 25 Old Alabama Town 25 Executive Director Position 26 Regional Roundup 27 Notes on Contributors 28 Become a Friend of the Center 30 Southern Culture Catalog Items Julian Wiener 32 Address Section/Mailing List Form/ Friends Information and Form April 30, 1917 - January 9,2002 Physician REQISTER STAFF Philanthropist

Editor: Ann].Abadie Longtime Member Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee Center's Advisory Committee Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth Jackson, Mississippi Editorial Assistant: Rana Wallace Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group The Center for the Study of Southern Culture gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who have made contributions to our program in memory ofJulian Wiener. The University complies with all applicable laws regarding affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its activities and programs and does not discriminate Dale and Ann Abadie •Dorothy H. Crosby against anyone protected by law because of age, color,disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or Lynn and Stewart Gammill • Pat and Phineas Stevens status as a veteran or disabled veteran. I Page 2 Winter 2002 The Southern Register George Washington Scholars McKee Named 2001 Humanities Teacher Institute for Mississippi Teachers In celebration of national Arts and Humanities Month last October, the To Take Place in Oxford in 2002 College of Liberal Arts named Kathryn McKee the Mississippi Humanities The George Washington Scholars Institute Council's 2001 Humanities Teacher at for Mississippi Teachers, a week long pro- Ole Miss. She is McMullan assistant gram for elementary and secondary professor of Southern Studies and assis- teachers, offered in collaboration with tant professor of English. the Education Department of Mount Vernon on Washington's estate in Virginia, will take place June 1-8, 2002, at the Center. This will be the fourth year that Mount Vernon has offered the institute for Mississippi teachers; however, it will be the first year that the institute will be held in Mississippi. For the first three years it was held at the Washington estate in Virginia. Henceforth the institute will alternate between Mount Vernon and Mississippi every third year, with continuing funding provided primarily by a gift from the Phil Hardin Foundation of Meridian, Mississippi. The institute's weeklong program provides an intensive study of George Washington and his world. The curriculum includes discussions led by noted Washington scholars and hands-on workshops exploring Washington's remarkable accomplishments. Participating teachers will attend sessions conducted by both Mount Vernon historians and educators and Washington scholars from around the country. Through study, discussion, and projects, participants gain a new and deeper The award includes a $500 honorari- understanding of the life and character of George Washington and his unique legacy um and requires the recipient to present in creating and shaping the principles of America's democracy. a lecture. McKee's lecture, presented at Upon completing the institute, teaches are required to prepare one lesson plan, Barnard Observatory in October, was suitable for publication and distribution to teaches across the nation, providing titled "Honey, Yer Ain't Half as Smart engaging, quality guidance on teaching about the life and contributions of George as Yer Thinks Yer Is: Race and Humor Washington. Participants are also in Sherwood Bonner's Short Fiction." "The lecture on Sherwood Bonner, a William Sommerfield, the actor required to conduct in-service training who often portrays George for other teachers in their home school 19th-century local color writer from Washington at Mount Vernon's districts. Holly Springs, Mississippi, afforded most important events, and The George Washington Scholars McKee a chance to demonstrate her actress Pat Jordan, who plays Institute is made possible thanks to the abilities as a lecturer and researcher," Martha Washington, will generous support of the Phil Hardin said Michael P. Dean, associate dean of participate in the George Foundation. The Mount Vernon the College of Liberal Arts. "The lec- Washington Scholars Institute to Department of Education is planning ture celebrated he humanities while be held in Oxford June 1-8,In the program in cooperation with the honoring and showcasing McKee." addition to meeting with Center for the Study of Southern Recognition is nothing new for participating teachers, Culture and the Mississippi Department McKee. Last spring, she won the Cora Sommerfield and Jordan will give Lee Graham Award for Teaching of a public performance during the of Education. week, Details will be announced For additional information, teachers Freshman Students and was also the in regional newspapers and and educators may contact Jennifer recipient of a Fulbright Junior broadcast media and on the Nance of the Mississippi Department of Lectureship. As a Fulbright Scholar, she Center's Web site Education at 601-359-2586. taught Southern literature and culture (www,olemiss,edu/depts/south), classes at the University of Maim in Germany.

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Richard Howorth), then the first of two panels on writing to be moderated by con- ference favorite Barry Hannah. The first panel, "Submitting Manuscripts/Working One's Way into Print," at 9:00 a.m., will feature Tom Franklin, author of the acclaimed story collection Poachers, and his agent Nat Sobel; novelist Brady Udall (The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint) and his editor, the noted Carol Houck Smith of W.W. Norton; and first-time novelist Sheri Joseph (Bear Me Safely Over). The second panel, "Finding a VOice/Reaching an Audience," at 10:30 a.m., features up- and-coming short story writer Steve Almond (My Life in Heavy Metal), noted experimental fiction writer Rick Moody (Demonology, The Ice Storm), play- wright/memorist Aishah Rahman (Chewed Water), poet and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, and Fiona McCrae, who, as publisher of Greywolf Press, is releasing Trethewey's new book, Bellocq's Ophelia. To help celebrate the launching of a new Master of Fine Arts program in cre- ative writing at the University, authors who have (above) A special screening of the film previously held the John and version of Larry Brown's stories Big Bad Love will be shown during the 2002 Renee Grisham Visiting Oxford Conference for the Book. A panel Southern Writer in with Brown (above), actor-director Arliss Residence position will Howard, and actress Debra Winger will return to speak and read dur- take place prior to the screening. ing sessions moderated by (left) Paula Vogel English Department chair Joseph Urgo, starting at 1:30 (below) Natasha Trethewey p.m. Among those scheduled to return are Mary Hood, Steve Yarbrough, Darcey Steinke, Claude Wilkinson, Tim Gautreaux, Randall Kenan, and current Grisham writer Tom Franklin. Next year's writer in residence will also be announced during this panel. The day winds down with a cocktail buffet at 7:00 p.m. at Isom Place, the proceeds of which go to benefit the conference. Saturday starts at 9:00 a.m. with the yearly panel "The Endangered Monograph Series at the Center for Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow," Arkansas Studies at UALR. Participants moderated by library and literacy advo- will include Claiborne Barksdale, execu- cate Elaine Scott, editor of the Ledbetter tive director of the Barksdale Reading

Page 4 Winter 2002 The Southern Register various awards for her first collection, The rest of Sunday is committed to Domestic Work; and distinguished writer the celebration of Tennessee Williams, William Trowbridge, an editor of the beginning at 11:00 a.m. with a presenta- Georgia Review whose most recent col- tion of the playwright's one-act play The lection of poems is called Flickers. Gnadiges Fraulein, directed by Michele Various author readings are slated for Cuomo and starring University of the rest of Saturday afternoon, begin- Mississippi Theatre students. Dramatic ning at 4:00 p.m. Among the featured scholar and University English professor authors are Steve Almond, Richard Colby Kullman will offer insight. Flanagan, whose new novel Gould's At 1:30 p.m., renowned Williams Book of Fish is a historical epic that has scholar W. Kenneth Holditch will speak received rave reviews in his native about the playwright in a lecture titled Australia, and Rick Moody, whose mem- "Southern Comfort: Tennessee Williams oir, The Black Veil, is due in May. The and the Landscape of Childhood." readings conclude with a discussion and Holditch edited the recent two-volume reading at 5:00 p.m. from playwright Library of America edition of Williams's Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning complete plays with the acclaimed New author of How I Learned to Drive. York Times theater critic Mel Gussow, Aishah Rhaman The conference day ends with a 6:30 who will offer his reflections at 2:30 p.m. cocktail party at Off Square Books, the Gussow is one of the country's foremost Institute, book industry insider and proceeds of which go to benefit the experts on theater, in particular the columnist Pat Holt, and author Gloria conference. works of Williams, Arthur Miller, and Jean Pinkney (In the Forest of Your Harold Pinter. Remembrance) of the beloved Pinkney The conference winds down with family of children's writers and illustra- final readings from Tennessee Williams's tors. Pinkney will also visit local schools plays by off- Broadway theater director as part of the Young Authors Fair spon- Erma Duricko and Holditch at 3:30 p.m. sored by the Junior Auxiliary of Oxford. Also on the agenda for this year's At 10:30 a.m., Neal Coonerty, presi- Oxford Conference for the Book is the dent of the American Booksellers traditional book signing with conference Association, will lead a discussion on the authors at Off Square Books and various book business with Pat Holt, Greywolf unscheduled parties and gatherings. Press publisher Fiona McCrae, and Tim Aside from a handful of events-the Huggins, formerly of the University Press cocktail buffet ($50), the Off Square of Mississippi and now owner of one of Books cocktail party ($25), and a lun- the country's fastest rising bookstores, cheon on Sunday ($15 )-the confer- Newtonville Books outside of Boston. ence is open to the public without Curtis Wilkie, author of Dixie and a charge. To assure seating space, those Gloria Jean Pinkney recent addition to the journalism facul- interested in attending should preregis- ty at Ole Miss, shifts the focus to jour- ter. Contact the Center, either by phone nalism with his panel "Covering Sunday, April 14, begins at 8:00 a.m. (662-915-5993), fax (662-915-5814), or Trouble," at 1:30 p.m. Participants will with a continental breakfast at the e-mail ([email protected]). include Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize Mississippi Hall of Writers in the John The 2002 conference is partially winner and chief Washington corre- Davis Williams Library on the funded by the University of Mississippi spondent for the Los Angeles Times, and University campus. The breakfast will and grants from the Mississippi Thomas Oliphant, a nationally syndi- be hosted by John M. Meador, Dean of Humanities Council, the cated columnist and frequent guest on University Libraries. Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, and the The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. More author readings begin at 9:00 Tribal-State Compact Fund. Sponsors Always a favorite at the conference is a.m., including Ace Atkins (Leavin' are the Center for the Study of the session celebrating National Poetry Trunk Blues), blues- I~ystery author and Southern Culture, Department of Month. Led by University of Mississippi recent addition to the University's jour- English, Department of History, English professor Michael P. Dean, the nalism department;Ole Miss professor Department of Journalism, McConnell- 3:00 p.m. session will feature readings David Galef, whose new collection of Barksdale Honors College, John and and discussions by Beth Ann Fennelly, stories is called Laugh Track; Grove- Renee Grisham Visiting Writers Fund, whose first collection, Open House, Atlantic author Sheri Joseph; the multi- Barksdale Reading Institute, Sarah received the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize faceted Aishah Rhaman; and one of the Isom Center for Women, Junior in Poetry for a First Book; Mississippi hottest up-and-comers in the country, Auxiliary of Oxford, and Square Books. native Natasha Trethewey, who received Brady Udall. JAMIE KORNEGAY

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 5 "Faulkner and His Contemporaries" Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha July 21..26, 2002

One of the most striking aspects of University, Daniele Pitavy-Souques, Faulkner's relationship to the literature University of Burgundy, France,Peggy of his time is the combination of his Whitman Prenshaw, of Louisiana State physical remoteness from its leading fig- University, and Merrill Maguire Skaggs, ures and urban centers and his intellec- of Drew University. tual grasp of its underlying dynamics. He Baker, author and editor of more than spent the bulk of his life in the small 25 volumes of criticism and poetry, North Mississippi town of Oxford, including Modernism and the Harlem rejecting the "revolt against the village," Renaissance and Turning South Again: Re- versions of which most of his major con- Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker temporaries were carrying out, often to T., will discuss his personal odyssey the point of leaving not only their birth- through Faulkner: he first studied him at places but the country itself. Faulkner remained where he was, and yet he was keenly aware of the extraordinary devel- opments taking place elsewhere in the nature of literary expression, and the philosophical, psychological, and cul- tural shifts that were driving them. "Faulkner and His Contemporaries," Houston Baker the 29th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, will explore the literary and intellectual rela- Fernando Pessoa and 19th-Century Anglo- tions Faulkner shares with other writers American Literature, and Stephen Crane's as well as the extent to which his work is Blue Badge of Courage, will trace some a reflection of, and a commentary on, "debts" each may have incurred from theirs. Six scholars appearing at the con- the other, Faulkner's to Hemingway in ference for the first time are Houston A. the "Wild Palms" section of If I Forget Baker Jr., of Duke University, Grace Thee, Jerusalem, and Hemingway's to the Elizabeth Hale, of the University of "Old Man" section of the same novel in Virginia, George Monteiro, of Brown some of his later work. Merrill Skaggs Pitavy-Souques and Prenshaw will take up Faulkner's relationships with Howard University with Toni Morrison, some of his Southern contemporaries. later taught his work in Paris, and has Pitavy-Souques, author of two volumes now returned to the South to read him on Eudora Welty, as well as a book- again in North Carolina. Hale, author of length study of Canadian women writ- Making Whiteness:The Culture of ers, will discuss Intruder in the Dust and Segregation in the South, 1890-1940, will The Ponder Heart in the context of the explore the shifting politics and aesthet- civil rights movement and the way in ics of "loving and hating" the South for which both texts enact a transgression Faulkner and his white male contempo- against the reigning values of the time. raries. , Prenshaw, author and editor of volumes By the 1950s, toward the end of both on Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, of their careers, the American writer other Southern women writers, and with whom Faulkner was most often Southern cultural history, will describe linked and compared was Hemingway. the responses of Welty, Spencer, and Monteiro, author and editor of studies Ellen Douglas to Faulkner's legacy, with in both American and Portuguese litera- particular attention to the issue of ture, including Robert Frost and the New racism. Skaggs, author of two books on Peggy Whitman Prenshaw England Renaissance,The Correspondence Willa Cather, a writer Faulkner much of Henry James and Henry Adams, admired, will discuss Faulkner's use of

Page 6 Winter 2002 The Southern Register Cather's 1922 novel, One of Ours, part Evans and their respective "images" of Mississippi will exhibit Faulkner books of which is set in France during World the South. published by university presses through- War I. In addition to the formal lectures, out the United States. Films relating to Returning to the conference will be Reckon Crew, a group of four Nashville the author's life and work will be avail- Deborah Clarke, of Pennsylvania State singer-songwriters, will present the song able for viewing during the week. Ms. University, author of Robbing the Mother: cycle As I Lay Dying, evocative musical Booth's Garden, an exhibition of pho- Women in Faulkner, who will bring settings of Faulkner's classic novel. tographs by Jack Kotz, will be on display together Faulkner, Henry Ford, and the Composers David Olney, Tom House, in the Gammill Gallery at Barnard automobile culture; Michel Gresset, of Karren Pell, and Tommy Goldsmith use Observatory. the Institut d'Anglais, Universite de folk, country, blues, and gospel styles to The conference will begin on Sunday, Paris 7, author of A Faulkner Chronology accompany Faulkner's story of the July 21, with an reception at the and Fascination: Faulkner's Fiction, 1919- Bundrens' sometimes blackly humorous University Museums for Paradox in 1936, who will address Faulkner's place struggle to take Addie Bundren to Paradise, an exhibition of mixed media in the French literary scene; and W. Jefferson for burial. artworks by Lea Barton. This will be fol- Kenneth Holditch, Research Professor Other program events will include lowed by an afternoon program of read- Emeritus of the University of New discussions by Faulkner friends and fam- ings from Faulkner and the Orleans, author and editor of numerous ily; sessions on "Teaching Faulkner" announcement of the winners of the studies and editions of the works of directed by James Carothers, University 13th Faux Faulkner Contest. The con- Tennessee Williams, who will deal with of Kansas,Robert Hamblin, Southeast test, coordinated by the author's niece, Faulkner and New Orleans, focusing pri- Missouri State University, Arlie Herron, Dean Faulkner Wells, is sponsored by marily on his connections with John University of Tennessee at Hemispheres Magazine/United Airlines, Dos Passos and Williams. Chattanooga, and Charles Peek, Yoknapatawpha Press and its Faulkner Also returning will be Donald University of Nebraska at Kearney; and Newsletter, and the University of Kartiganer, author of The Fragile Thread: guided tours of North Mississippi. Arlie Mississippi. Other events will include a The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels Herron will present a slide show of pho- Sunday buffet supper served at the home and coeditor with Ann J. Abadie of tographs of North Mississippi, images, as of Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Howorth Jr., seven volumes of proceedings of the he puts it, "of things and people that "Faulkner on the Fringe"-an "open- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha reminded me of Faulkner in Oxford, mike" evening at the Southside Gallery, Conference, who will discuss the role of New Albany, the Hill Country, the guided day-long tours of North "gesture" in Faulkner and Hemingway, Delta, and along the River." Mississippi on Tuesday, a picnic served and Thomas Rankin, director of the The University's John Davis Williams at Faulkner's home,Rowan Oak, on Center for Documentary Studies at Library will display Faulkner books, Wednesday, and a closing party Friday Duke University, who will consider manuscripts, photographs, and memora- afternoon at Square Books. Faulkner and the photographer Walker bilia; and the University Press of For more information about the confer- ence, contact the Center for Non-Credit Education, P.O. Box 879, The University Saks Incorporated Fellowships Available to High of Mississippi, University,MS 38677- 1848; telephone 662-915- 7282; fax 662- School Teachers for Faulkner Conference 915-5138, e-mail [email protected]. For on-line information consult www.ole- Thirty high school teachers chosen from applicants in five Southern states will miss.edu/depts/south/faulkner/index.htm, be attending the University's 29th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha and for on-line registration consult Conference, July 21-26, 2002, without cost, thanks to fellowships funded by Saks www.ics.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner-yok Incorporated Foundation, on behalf of McRae's, Proffitt's and Parisian department napatawpha_200 1.html. stores. English and literature instructors in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, For information about participating in Mississippi, and Tennessee are eligible to apply. the conference through Elderhostel, call The Saks Incorporated Fellowships will provide the registration fee and cover 877-426-8056 and refer to the program expenses for the six-day conference and teacher workshops, including instructional number 24225, or contact Carolyn Vance materials and supplies, dormitory lodging, a travel stipend, and a meal stipend. The Smith by telephone (601-446- 1208) or University will award 3.9 Continuing Education Units for the' teacher workshops e-mail ([email protected]). and the conference sessions. DONALD M. KART1GANER The application deadline is April 10. Notification will be made by May 10. Requests for fellowship application forms should be submitted to Faulkner Conference-Saks Incorporated Fellowships, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 879, University, MS, 38677 -0879. For further information regarding the teacher workshops, teachers may contact the University of Mississippi Center for Non- Credit Education by telephone (662-915- 7282) or e-mail ([email protected]).

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 7 Center Ventress Order Trustees

The Ventress Order is a donors group dedicated to strengthening departments and programs in the University's College of Liberal Arts. In recent months, a growing number of friends have joined this Order and committed their dona- tions to the Center. Holt and Lynn McMullan, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, were the first Ventress Order members to designate their gift of $5,000 to bene- fit the Center. Since then, six other individuals or couples have followed their lead. Ebbie (Mrs. William) Hart, of Jackson, a 1936 graduate of the University, was perhaps the most imaginative with her gift. She made her Ventress donation as a Christmas present in honor of her daughter and son-in-law, Juliet Hart Walton and Gerald W. Walton. Julie earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University From left, Julie Walton and Gerald Walton look at plaque announcing Ebbie Hart's and taught here until retiring last Christmas gift, a donation to the Ventress Order in honor of the Waltons. spring. Gerald received his Ph.D. from the University, where he remained to teach English, serve as dean of the Lesley and Joe Urgo, and an individual, Arts Advancement Associate, at 800- College of Liberal Arts, and Vice Ann Abadie, bring the number of 340-9542. Or, call the Center at 662- Chancellor for Academic Affairs.Since Center-designated gifts to seven. 915-5993 and request help in setting up his retirement in 1999, he has served as In the coming year, during the cele- a Ventress Order/Southern Studies gift. a member of the Center Advisory bration of the 25th anniversary, the You may also seek donation information Committee. Center would like to add many more on the University's Web site: Vasser Bishop, of Oxford, a founding Ventress Order members to its ranks. www.umf.olemiss.edu. member of the Center Advisory The program offers various types of con- Members of the Order have their Committee, recently gave a Ventress tributions: an outright gift of $5,000, a names inscribed on a plaque displayed at Order gift to benefit the Center. In addi- pledge of $1,000 a year for five years, the College of Liberal Arts, housed in tion to Vasser Bishop and Holt and $42 a month for 10 years, or even trans- historic Ventress Hall, named for James Lynn McMullan, other members of the fer of property such as stocks, bonds, or Alexander Ventress, a principal figure in Center Advisory Committee who have art work. the early history of the University. designated Ventress gifts for the Center If you or someone you know would be Members also have the opportunity to are Carlette McMullan, of Chicago, interested in learning more about the conduct business of the Order at its Illinois, and Patricia and Phineas Ventress Order, and making the Center annual membership meeting. All Stevens, of Point Clear, Alabama. your Ventress Order funds' beneficiary, Ventress Order gifts are tax deductible. Ventress Order donations from a couple, please contact Perry Moulds, Liberal

Page 8 Winter 2002 The Southern Register Student Photographers to Exhibit in Gammill Gallery

Opening in the Gammill Gallery at ate seminar offered by David Wharton. Beth Lasseter, Preston Lauterbach, Barnard Observatory in late March will "This was a great group," Wharton says. Shannon Payne, Katie Vinroot, Rana be Yoknapatawpha 2001: Town and "From the very start, they had their own Wallace, and Joe York. With the excep- Country - Work by Southern Studies ideas of what to photograph and how to tion of undergraduates Bowles and Jolly, Photography Students. Ten students, most photograph it. Some of the work in the all the students are enrolled in the of whom had no previous photography show is very poetic and stretches the University's master's program in experience, came together during the boundaries of what we normally think of Southern Studies. This exhibition is the fall of 2001 in a Southern Studies gradu- as documentary photography." second in what the Center projects as an The students whose work will be annual spring exhibition of photographs exhibited are Molly Boland, Stephen by Southern Studies students in the Bowles, Amy Evans, Rob Jolly, Mary Gammill Gallery.

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The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 9 Southern Studies Alumni

As the Center prepares to celebrate its Silver Anniversary, and joined an independent potters guild in Memphis. She the University's Master of Arts degree program in Southern teaches at the Center for Arts and Education, part of the Studies enters its 16th year. Graduates of the program have Memphis Arts Council, and in the public schools. "This was a found jobs in diverse fields such as historic preservation, cultur- totally new twist on Southern Studies for me, but I am so glad al tourism, documentary studies, historical studies, and film- that I'm able to use my study of self-taught and folk art to make making, and with both academic and cultural organizations connections with these children's daily lives and environ- and institutions. Also, alumni have entered doctoral programs ments." at William and Mary, Emory, Brown, Vanderbilt, the University Southern Studies students have been uniquely qualified to of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina at Chapel help lead cultural institutions. Josh Haynes (2001) was recent- Hill, and the University of Florida, among others. The Center ly hired as the community relations and special events coordi- is proud of its alumni and in this brief report recognizes the nator at the Alabama Historical Commission in Montgomery. endeavors and accomplishments of some of them. Reports on He joined graduate Patrick McIntyre (1995), who has been others will follow throughout the Center's anniversary year. the endangered properties coordinator there since 1999. Tamara King (1994) received her Ph.D. in history from Michelle Weaver Jones (1993) administers a field office of the Auburn University in 2000 and has just completed her first Historic Preservation Division of the Mississippi Department year teaching history at the University of Georgia. She of Archives and History housed in the School of Architecture acknowledges the Southern Studies Program's influence on her at Mississippi State University. current teaching style: "Because I learned about the' South Meredith Devendorf operates Melon Bluff, a 3,000-acre from multiple perspectives, my history classes are better. I can nature and heritage center in coastal Georgia. Devendorf's par- use a variety of approaches to help students learn." ents assist with the center, which is on family land. For her Joel Rosen (1993) has taught at several colleges and univer- work, she has received the Cultural Olympiad Regional sities since completing his M.A. degrees in both Southern Designation Award for Excellence and Innovation in Studies and sociology at Ole Miss. One of the courses he teach- Humanities Programming (1994-1995), Best New Tourism es, Sociology of the Blues, is a direct result, he says, of his Product Award, State of Georgia (1996-1997), and Southern Studies classes under Bill Ferris and Peter Aschoff. Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year (2000), among others. Rosen is preparing to defend his doctoral dissertation, Allison Finch (1996) currently serves as communications "Through a Prism of Modern Discourse: The Nature of coordinator of Grace Covenant Church in Austin. She previ- Competition in American Sport," at the University of Kent- ously served as the assistant director of the Walker Percy Canterbury in April of this year. Internet Literacy Project. Other Southern Studies alumni are also nearing completion The Center iscontinually enriched by the successesof itsgrad- of Ph.D. degrees. Darren McDaniel (1994) is working on his uate students. Likewise, Southern Studies alumni attest to the doctorate in sociology at Vanderbilt while living in Orlando Center's influence in their current professionsand daily lives.The and producing and directing a feature film he wrote, set in rural unique relationship cultivated between the Center and its stu- Texas. Bland Whitley (1996), a student at the University of dents and alumni remains strong long after students graduate Florida, is completing his dissertation on the relationships from the Southern Studies Program. between religious and political cultures in Mississippi after the Sudye Cauthen (1993), who is building a house on the Civil War. Bland and his wife, Sarah Torian (1997), met at the banks of the Suwannee River in White Springs, Florida, works Center while pursuing Southern Studies degrees. Sarah helps at the North Florida Center for Documentary Studies, which edit Southern Changes for the Southern Regional Council. she established in 1997. "The Center for the Study of Some Southern Studies alumni are teaching. Robin Morris Southern Culture is my proudest affiliation," Cauthen said. (2001) was recently hired as educator of Youth and Family "The program gave me perspective on my work and my life and Programs at the Levine Museum of the New South in is, arguably, the best single decision I've ever made; friendships Charlotte, North Carolina. Melissa McGuire Bridgman in Oxford still sustain me." (1999) has found her "dream job." She has become a potter RANA WALLACE ANew Season of Thacker Mountain Radio With the New Year in full swing, opening show on Thursday, February guests Lynn Drury, Spencer Boren-and Thacker Mountain Radio-Oxford's only 7th, presented the sounds of Carlos more. live radio show- is on the air again. Washington & Giant People and the Thacker Mountain is free and open to Last season Thacker Mountain treated words of author Bernice McFadden. The the public every Thursday from 5:30 to fans to a great line-up of authors and spring line-up includes authors James 6:30 p.m. at Off Square Books. The musicians, and this season's 12 programs McBride, Robert Olen Butler, John show is broadcast on WOXD-Bullseye promise to be equally entertaining. The Dufresne, Nevada Barr and musical 95.5 FM and on the Web at

Page 10 Winter 2002 The Southern Register Documentary Project on Freedom Riders

In 1961, hundreds of volunteers from across the country i i~ ~ traveled to the South to challenge segregation in interstate bus m travel. Known collectively as Freedom Riders, the volunteers •~ met violent resistance and arrest, but their courage helped dis- mantle discrimination against African Americans. Forty years later, many of those Freedom Riders returned to Jackson, Mississippi, to celebrate their accomplishments. The Center was able to document this significant event as Southern Studies graduate students collected oral histories at the 40th anniversary reunion, held this past November. The students filmed more than 40 interviews, each of which lasted between 30 minutes and an hour. The original tapes will be archived in Special Collections in the John D. Williams Library, where they will be available to students and researchers. The effort in Jackson is part of a larger project led by gradu- ate students Joe York and Amy Evans to produce a series of documentary films about the civil rights movement. Although planning for the project is in the preliminary phase, the stu- dents hope to include the films as the centerpiece of a curricu- lum for teaching the history of the civil rights movement to high school students. The initial plans for the venture also call for an interactive Web site that would allow for the viewer to download the films as an accompaniment to relevant text. York sees the project as a valuable tool in the continuing struggle for civil rights."To inspire students to take an active role in investigating their own past, their present social sur- roundings," he said, "and to take an active interest in the future of their world ... that is what the project hopes to do; promote awareness through interesting, engaging, and com- pelling information." York and Evans gave a Brown Bag program at the Center on January 23. They previewed the rough cut of the first install- ment of the films, titled A Documentary on Progress. Produced James Forman addressing a group of Freedom Riders at their 40th without the benefit of profeSSional editing equipment, the film anniversary reunion, held in Jackson, Mississippi highlights the interviews with several Freedom Riders, as well as comments from James Forman, secretary of the Student Glisson and David Wharton, assistant professor of Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to1966. Studies and director of documentary projects at the Center, are Susan Glisson, assistant director of the Center, responded to assisting the students in their efforts, which will include secur- the initial efforts with enthusiasm."I can't begin to tell how great ing grants to fund the project. Helping York and Evans with the documentary is," Glisson said. "For all the rough technical the project are graduate students Tiffany Hammelin, Evan aspects, the story is compelling. They created a wondelful narra- Hatch,Preston Lauterbach, and Warren Ables. tive that's interesting and instructive and sheds new light on one WARREN ABLES of the most significant social movements of the 20th century." www.Bullseye955.com. To check the keep us afloat. Sponsorships are avail- schedule, find out about past shows, and able, offering businesses the opportunity keep in touch with the folks at Thacker to advertise to an ever-expanding radio Mountain Radio, visit www.thacker- audience. Individuals are invited to mountain.com. become "Friends of Thacker Mountain" Square Books and the Center for the by making tax-deductible gifts. For Study of Southern Culture sponsor information on becoming a sponsor or Thacker Mountain with assistance from friend, please send an e-mail to local businesses and grants, and we are [email protected]. always looking for new friends to help AMY EVANS

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 11 Caroline Herring's New CD Caroline Herring, a 1999 graduate of landia/ get your ghosts the Southern Studies Program, launched off of me." Many of the her first CD, entitled Twilight, on the lyrics deal with leaving a Blue Corn Music label. Herring per- place you know and love. forms often in her new home, Austin, "Learning to Drive" ends Texas, and the Austin Chronicle recently with a narrator observing named her the Best New Artist in its that the "pretty girl from critics' poll awards. a Delta town" is driving Herring, who grew up in Canton, her U-Haul across the Mississippi, came to the University as an Mississippi River: undergraduate, earning her bachelor's "lanterns on the levee degree and then returning to enter the and a fist full of cotton/ Southern Studies graduate program.She old times there will not wrote a master's thesis on the Mississippi She is a regular performer as well at be forgotten." These songs are folk- Association of Southern Women for the Stubb's Barbecue, a prime Austin musi- country, unsentimental, sharply Prevention of Lynching, drawing from cal venue. observed, and often ironic. history and documentary studies. She Twilight contains 10 original songs, Herring debuted her CD with a perfor- was a founding member of the Sincere plus a cover of Roy Acuff's country mance at Oxford's Proud Larry's last fall. Ramblers, a traditional/bluegrass Oxford music classic, "Wreck on the Highway." She will be performing in Chapel Hill in band that performed on a late-night Herring's own compositions reflect her March and will return to Oxford in late radio show from Blind Jim's restaurant feelings since leaving Mississippi and April as part of the Double Decker and then as the first house band for living in the vibrant musical scene of Festival. In considering her singing and Thacker Mountain Radio. Austin.Mississippi references are songwriting success in Austin so far, one is After graduating, Herring moved to throughout, as seen in such song titles reminded of a line from one song in this Austin, where she is a student in as "Mississippi Snow" and "Delta CD:"the Carolina moon is rising in the American Studies at the University of Highway." One of the most evocative Texas sky." Texas and also works as program coordi- songs is "Standing in the Water," which CHARLES REAGAN WILSON nator for the Texas Folklife Resources. ends with the lines, "goodnight cotton-

Special Collections to Offer Tennessee Williams Exhibition

A special exhibition on Tennessee Baby Doll. Also in the exhibition will Williams will open in conjunction with be several vintage movie posters based the 2002 Oxford Conference for the on Williams's work and other paper Book, which is dedicated this year to ephemera. the famous playwright from Mississippi. A number of rare Tennessee The exhibition, assembled by the Williams items are also included in University's Department of Archives Special Collections 1975- 2000: A and Special Collections, will feature Silver Anniversary Exhibition. several cases devoted to Williams's life Highlighting a quarter century of acqui- and career. The exhibition will open on sitions, this exhibition includes literary April 11 and continue through the end rarities of William Faulkner, Eudora of the year. Welty, Larry Brown, and Richard Unique items on display include a Wright. signed copy of the August 1928 issue of The Department of Archives and Weird Tales Magazine, which contains Special Collections is located on the Thomas Lanier Williams's first pub- third floor of the J. D. Williams Library. lished work, a short story, "The HOLirs are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Vengeance of Nitocris"; a Williams Monday through Friday, except for poem printed in the 1932 University of University holidays.For more informa- Missouri yearbook; and the annotated tion, call 662-915-7408. typesetting draft for the screenplay of

Page 12 Winter 2002 The Southern Register Ann Patchett's "Imagination Travel"

Last summer, HarperCollins sent Ann Patchett as far north as Chicago and as far west as Seattle to promote Bel Canto, a book loosely based on the 1996 terrorist takeover of the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru. Reading at Oxford's Square Books in June, Patchett captivated her audience as surely as Roxane Coss, the soprano protagonist, charmed the interna- tional guests gathered at the vice president's mansion in an unnamed South American country before the whole company was taken hostage.Patchett has signed each of her four novels at the local store, beginning with The Patron Saint of Liars in 1992, and she was especially pleased to be in town shortly after the successful mayoral campaign of Square Books owner Richard Howorth. A couple of weeks before her latest Oxford appearance, Patchett generously agreed to a long telephone interview, whose subjects ranged from Southern writing to her "musical- ly deprived childhood."Born in Los Angeles, the novelist has lived in Nashville since she was six, and her first publisher marketed Patron Saint of Liars as a Southern novel, describing Patchett on the dustcover as Nashville born. The assumption was that readers would be more interested in a story about characters in a Kentucky home for unwed mothers if they thought she had always lived in the South-even though the novel's main character is herself from California. Reinforcing the early identification of the writer with Southern settings, her second novel, Taft (1994), opens in a Beale Street bar Ann Patchett named Muddy's and includes a brief road trip to the Shiloh battlefield. Patchett is "very, very happy to be thought of as a Southern author because Southern audiences have been very good to Southern writers. Patchett and Freeman met for the first time me." She estimates that readers from this region buy more of at a festive dinner on her visit to Oxford last summer, but she her books than people in other parts of the country. Moreover, had been in regular communication with him since he bought Patchett's favorite writers include many Southerners. "I'm a the screen rights to the novel she calls "the book that huge Faulkner fan-isn't everybody?" she laughed. Light in bombed." Enthusiastically reviewed by the New York Times and August-"three times longer and three times easier than most other national media, Taft nevertheless has attracted a smaller of Faulkner"-is among her top Faulkner novels. Patchett has readership than Patchett's other three novels. When the stu- often cited Eudora Welty as an important influence on her dents in my Southern women writers course read the book a work, and she also rates Carson McCullers highly:"She's one few years ago, they enjoyed the Memphis locale but suggested of those authors you read when you're young, and then when that the relationship between Patchett's African American you're an adult you think you need to read others, but she's narrator and the white teenager who works in his bar is implau- really good." sible. "For contemporary, I love Allan Gurganus," Patchett added. Patchett has heard similar reactions from other readers. The North Carolina author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow "Most of the reviews of my earlier books, whether they were Tells All and White People was one of her creative writing teach- positive reviews or negative reviews, said the plots were ers at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, "and the best I've 'implausible,' even though they seemed very real to me. ever had." Patchett went to Sarah Lawrence with plans t~ Anything can happen once; if you can imagine it, it can hap- become a poet-"I'd spent my childhood reading poems"-but pen," she remarked. Morgan Freeman wants to play the role of she claims she never wrote "a passingly decent poem," and she bartender John Nickel, a somewhat unusual casting that neces- realized she wanted to write fiction as soon as she took sitated differences in Patchett's screenplay since the protago- Gurganus's class. Among the "really good newer writers" she nist is 34 in her novel. Proud of her mother Jeanne Ray's counts Tony Early, who lives in Nashville and has read from success as a first-time novelist at 60, Patchett told the Square Jim the Boy at Square Books. Books audience that Ray's bestseller Julie and Romeo has been Morgan Freeman's great interest in Patchett's Taft could lead optioned too, by Barbra Streisand.She warned Ray that film new audiences to consider her as part of the company of rights are no guarantee of an actual production, but Patchett

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 13 clearly appreciates that "Having a film Canto "pulls out all the stops," says option helps keep me from having a Patchett. "In writing courses, you hear job." that melodrama is a big no-no, but I Patchett has occasionally taught cre- wondered what it would be like to fol- ative writing at the University of the low that melodramatic inclination." In South and other schools for a semester fact, melodramatic moments occur in all at a time, leaving the rest of the year free her books; and her third novel, The for her own writing. "I wrote for maga- Magician's Assistant (1997), with its star- zines for years," she said, "and I have tling revelations and visionary dreams, hundreds of my clippings in boxes at sets the stage for the high drama of Bel home, but now the novel business occu- Canto. The vivid contrasts, in Magician's pies my time." She still accepts such Assistant, between warm Los Angeles- irresistible commissions as Gourmet "where everyone is from somewhere magazine's request for a piece on Italian else"-and chilly, homogeneous opera that appeared in the June issue: Nebraska anticipate the fatal clashes in "Their subtitle is The Magazine of Good the polyglot multiculture of Bel Canto. THE COMPANION Living, and they joke that I'm the 'good The amazing effect of Roxane Coss's TO SOUTHERN living' writer." The Gourmet essay was a beautiful singing on hostages and terror- natural for the author of Bel Canto, a ists alike seems even more surreal and LITERATURE novel that resonates with Patchett's dream-like in light of this fall's all-too- THEMES, GENRES, PLACES, newfound love of opera.Reviewing the real terrorist attacks on New York and PEOPLE, MOVEMENTS, book for Oxford Town, University of Washington. Yet, author Robb Forman AND MOTIFS Mississippi librarian Amy E.Mark pro- Dew recently found "solace" in posed that "opera in Bel Canto serves to Patchett's novel because "it delineates Edited by joseph M Flora and help the reader understand how genius the way we manage to sustain hope." Lucinda H. MacKethan and beauty can transform." The scope and setting of Bel Canto are Associate Editor: Todd Taylor Before Patchett could portray this reminiscent of the fiction of Gabriel transformative magic, however, she had Garcia Marquez, an author Patchett "Invaluable-comprehensive, illu- to overcome the lack of any real back- admires; but she sees her latest novel as minating, right up-to-date, and oh ground in music. "Music was torture to "an homage to The Magic Mountain." so readable! The topics are uni- \. me growing up," she said. "My stepfa- Thomas Mann's novel takes place in a formly interesting, and some are ther was a doctor who was hooked on tuberculosis sanitarium, "with love and inspired."-Lee Smith, author of easy-listening stuff on the radio, and I intrigue among patients from all over Fair and Tender Ladies didn't buy a record until I was 15." the world who were forced to lie down Patchett knows that writing instructors for years at a time"-analogous to the weeks' long isolation of Patchett's char- "Presenting carefully edited, emi- often caution students not to write acters. At the end of Magic Mountain, nently readable articles by informed about anything they don't know well, the convalescent Hans Castorp is students on biographical, critical, but she likes to "learn something new abruptly sent off to war; and, says sociological, political, and geograph- with every book, and for Bel Canto that Patchett, "You're pushed out into a ical aspects of the complex history was opera." Unfortunately, her prelimi- world you weren't prepared for by any- of writing in the American South nary efforts to appreciate the form were thing that happened earlier." Patchett's over the span of five centuries, this less than inspiring: "At first, I put well-crafted fiction has pushed her char- work will become the indispensable Wagner on and hated it." But Fred acters too into a series of new realms, companion to scholars and general Plotkin's guidebook, Opera 101: A from Saint Elizabeth's Home in Habit, readers alike."-Lewis P. Simpson, Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Kentucky, to Vice President Ruben author of The Fable of the Southern Opera, taught her how to listen. Patchett Iglesias's elegant South American man- Writer spent hours reading libretti, then reread- ing them along with the music. She sion. For Ann Patchett, "The imagina-

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One Family.

Photographs and text by Vaughn Sills. Foreword by Robert Coles. With poems by Tina Toole Truelove. 164 pages. 143 black and white pho- tographs. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. $29.95 cloth.

One afternoon in 1979, while visit- ing friends in Athens, Georgia, Vaughn Sills asked the driver of the pickup she was riding in to pull over. She got out, unloaded her camera equipment, and began making pho- tographs of two children playing in front of a small wooden house on the edge of town. By the end of the after- noon, she had also photographed the children's mother, an older sister who had arrived home from school in the midst of the picture-making, and sev- eral family dogs. She went back the following day, this time making pho- more pictures and knew, she tells us, Toole family posing on sparsely fur- tographs inside the Toole family's tiny that the Tooles' home "was clearly nished front porches; people socializ- home. The next day she flew back to the place to be." For the next 18 ing in front of dilapidated wooden Boston, unaware that she had years, Sills returned to Georgia almost houses or well-used mobile homes; a embarked on a project that would annually, spending a week or so each number of dingy, claustrophobic inte- take two decades to complete and time with the Tooles. Over the years, riors. At first glance, One Family generate thousands of photographs, she got to know more of their extend- looked like just another bunch of pic- hours of taped interviews, lasting ed and expanding family, watched the tures about Southern poverty-well- friendships with members of the children grow and the adults age, and crafted pictures perhaps, but still. ... Toole family, and this very fine book. became privy to their joys and I was wrong. These pictures appear Sills didn't see the Tooles again for heartaches. She photographed repetitive to only the most cursory another year and a half, when she throughout and, beginning in 1988, glance. A more careful look reveals next visited Athens. Even then, she tape-recorded interviews with several levels of richness and depth that had no plan to continue photograph- family members. makes each image fascinating, espe- ing the family; she was merely doing I was slow to realize what a good cially in the book's cumulative con- the courtesy of taking them prints book this is. The first time I leafed text. Sequenced chronologically over from those first two afternoons of through it, giving the photographs a a span of twenty years, the pho- photography-or so she thought.But quick look, I was unimpressed. Don't tographs show the Toole family grow- she had a camera with her, more get me wrong: th~ pictures were well ing and changing. We see those who members of the Toole family were seen, nicely reproduced, etc., etc., but were children in the early pictures there for her to meet, and they were as images they seemed limited and become adults who eventually appear willing to be photographed. By the repetitive-shifting combinations of in later photographs with children of end of the day, she had made many the same dozen or so members of the their own. We see Joel and Lois Toole,

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the parents of that first generation of for the Southern Texts Society. Agrarianism. Bingham and children, start to age, then begin to Charlottesville: University Press of Underwood point toward three other look ill, and eventually disappear. Virginia, 2001. 310 pages. $45.00. Agrarians-Andrew Lytle, H. C. Interspersed throughout are excerpts Nixon, and Frank Owsley- as being from Sills's interviews with various This book is a welcome addition to central to the movement to make members of theToole family. In com- the scholarship on the Southern Agrarianism not just a literary state- bination, the pictures and the texts Agrarians, whose ]'11Take My Stand: ment but a political ideology. portray a four-generation family liv- The South and the Agrarian Tradition The Agrarian philosophy is still rel- ing lives made difficult by poverty but (1930) made a lasting impression on evant as a critique of American capi- nonetheless enriched by each mem- Southern literature and social talism, as seen in contemporary ber's presence. thought. Scholars have examined the writers like Wendell Berry embracing One Family fits within a long tradi- Agrarians mostly in terms of that many of its specific points. It still fig- tion of using photography to examine book, but Emily S. Bingham and ures as well in understanding of the lives of poor Southerners. It invites Thomas A. Underwood open a new Southern racial politics in the 20th obvious comparisons to Walker avenue of investigation with this century. The Agrarians rarely wrote Evans's and James Agee's Let Us Now carefully edited volume of primary about African Americans until the Praise Famous Men. Both books focus sources. After Franklin D. Roosevelt 1930s, leaving them out altogether in on poor white families in their homes; initiated the New Deal, half of the their often idealized view of Southern both treat their subjects as individuals original Agrarians began writing arti- rural life, but Bingham and rather than as types; both combine cles refining and defending a more Underwood show how later, racist words and pictures to explore depths concrete version of an Agrarian phi- essays by Davidson and Owsley "chart neither medium seems apable of on its losophy than they had presented in the devolution of the movement from own; both achieve a level of intima- their book at the beginning of the a promising critique of modern cy-Evans and Agee in a brief but 1930s.As Bingham and Underwood American industrialism to a jeremiad intense burst,Sills through long dura- note, in these new essays "they pre- about preserving the 'organic' struc- tion-unattainable by most docu- sented themselves as social thinkers ture of the South." This volume is sig- mentary workers. But there are whose ideas could and should be nificant in helping anyone interested important differences as well, not the translated into public policy." I'll Take in the Agrarians to see the full sweep least of which is how radically our My Stand had rested Agrarianism's of their thought, to more fully under- thinking about such projects has meaning on a spiritual rejection of stand the literary, political, and cul- evolved over the 65 years separating industrial materialism and on embrac- tural meanings of their work. the two, an evolution Sills has had the ing aesthetic meanings of life, but in The Southern Agrarians and the benefit of, while Evans and Agee did these essays of the 1930s the New Deal is a publication of the not.Suffice it to say that neither book Agrarians tried to explain the bene- Southern Texts Society, founded in should be burdened by-or judged fits of a rejection of monopoly capital- 1988 to produce volumes of primary against-the other. Each should be ism and its values and the potential documents or rare texts and to taken for what it is and judged by economic and social advantages of advance understanding of the culture what it achieves within its own histor- small-scale agriculture. of the American South. Michael ical context. In the case of Let Us Now The Agrarian writings of the 1930s O'Brien is editor of the series. Praise Famous Men, we know that to have not been accessible before, and CHARLES REAGAN WILSON be a lot. That is also true of Vaughn the editors have provided an impor- Sills's book. Anyone interested in the tant service in bringing these six South, or documentary practice, extended essays together and provid- Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life. should be familiar with One Family. ing appropriate scholarly annota- By Hubert H. McAlexander. DAVID WHARTON tions. In doing so, they shift the focus Louisiana State University Press, of interpretation as'to who commen- 2001. 338 pages. $34.95. tators should see as the architects of The Southern Agrarians and the movement. Traditionally, scholars For a number of reasons, most of the New Deal: Essays after have seen John Crowe Ransom, which are too complex to go into in a Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and brief review, Peter Taylor has never "I'll Take My Stand." Robert Penn Warren, all of whom garnered the attention and praise that Edited by Emily S. Bingham and had been a part of the Fugitive poetry his work merits. A brilliant stylist and Thomas A. Underwood. Published movement, as the founders of a master of the short story, Taylor is a

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doubt will go a long way in helping to will engage anyone interested in bring deserved attention to Taylor. Blanche DuBois's fate-as well as Taylor's life is pretty much the stuff of that of New Orleans, Mississippi, and his stories-not spectacularly trau- the Old South. matic or dramatic, but rich and com- Streetcar has now been on the stage plex in its own quiet way. for 54 years. Judging from Kolin's doc- McAlexander turns out to be the per- umentation and expertise in fect Taylor biographer because he's as Tennessee Williams, this book is the sensitive and nuanced in his analysis result of years of research in various and writing as Taylor himself. And he libraries, theatre archives, and theatre also knows his material, particularly in companies from around the world. providing the context of Taylor's life, Highly readable and accessible, Peter which turns out to be almost as much Kolin's text weaves critical commen- of the story as Taylor himself. Taylor tary into observations on matters of Taylor knew and hung out with scores of the staging, characterization, and repre- most important literary figures of the sentation of place. One of the key A Writer's Life century-it's pointless even to begin a themes that runs throughout list-and McAlexander does an extra- Streetcar's history is how the South Hubert H. McAlexander ordinary job in discussing these figures has been represented on stage and knowledgeably both in terms of their how has it changed over the years. individual quirkiness and their artistic Jean Cocteau staged New Orleans as deeply Southern writer who was significance-and of course their per- if it were a Southern Marseilles, the trained by many of the acknowledged sonal importance to Taylor. South in the Tokyo premiere is a Southern masters-J ohn Crowe Taylor emerges in McAlexander's microcosm of post- World War II Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert biography in all his complexity, a man American culture-the scene of Penn Warren- and whose work whose surface gentility and sociability occupation, and the South is resembles none of them. That's part masked struggles as dark and disturb- "Hollywood-esque" in the 1973 West of the problem: identified closely with ing as we all suffer.Taylor is one of our Coast 25th anniversary production. the big male guns of Southern litera- masters, and McAlexander has given Kolin knows more about Streetcar ture, he doesn't write like them. us a masterful biography. All in all, it's than almost any other scholar. He has Unlike most of the giants of 20th- a superb work, a model of what the century Southern literature- subtitle says it is-a writer's life. Faulkner, Wolfe, Warren, Wright, to ROBERT H. BRINKMEYER JR. name several, whose fiction charac- teristically centers upon grand trau- matic social dislocations and Williams: A Streetcar Named spectacular events, with all the Desire. required architecture of Southern defeat, gloom, and grotesquerie- By Philip C. Kolin. Plays in Production Taylor writes quiet and nuanced fic- Series. Cambridge: Cambridge tion focusing on complicated University Press, 2000. 229 pages. $ individuals in ordinary situations 54.95 cloth, $ 19.95 paper. that, in Taylor's hands, tum out to be extraordinary.Taylor explores the Tennessee Williams is Mississippi's myriad dynamics of human relation- and America's most popular play- ships, particularly the next-to-invisi- wright, and A Streetcar Named Desire ble fault lines that mark all human is beyond doubt his most famous play. interaction. In all this,Taylor's work Philip Kolin's book-in the presti- most resembles that of Henry James, gious Cambridge University Press an author who rarely gets mentioned Plays in Production series-is the first in terms of Southern influence. production and cultural history of the PHIlJPC. KOLIN Hubert McAlexander's new biogra- play. Deftly blending critical theory phy, Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life, no with performance history,Kolin's text

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uncovered valuable information on 1 have taught Streetcar for the past termed the school an "educational national premieres of the play in 30 years, first at the University of commune." Cobb makes the case France, Sweden,China,Japan, Kansas and now at the University of that it is "thus an impossible hybrid Mexico, England, Australia, and Mississippi, and my Mid-Western stu- of two full-time occupations that Ireland. Especially praiseworthy is the dents have loved the playas much as could not successfully coexist." way Kolin analyzes the script as it has my Southern students. Its appeal is Each chapter of the book deals with been adapted to various cultures so as universal. If you are interested in an aspect of the development of the to "translate or mediate" American Tennessee Williams, Streetcar-or the school, beginning with a look at its cultural icons to these countries. South or Blanche DuBois or desire- philosophical underpinnings. In the Kolin also assesses Streetcar in then this book is a must. You will not extensive documentation, however, it other media-the Vivien Leigh- be able to miss it in your favorite is frustra ting to find some of the Marlon Brando film in 1951, the var- bookstore as the cover is scarlet red. intriguing human interest stories ious white and black ballet versions, That says it all. unexplained or clarified only later, in and the Andre Previn opera in 1998. COLBY H. KULLMAN a footnote to something else that In the latter, Blanche appears not as a could easily have been missed. The neurasthenic personality but as a only shootout at the College, "belting-it-out" diva. Just as the Radical Education in the described on page170 in interesting South has undergone transforma- Rural South: Commonwealth detail, is clarified by a long footnote tions, so have Blanche and Stanley. College 1922-1940. on page179 dealing with plans for Today, argues Kolin, Blanches are change at the College. The "continu- more tough, comic; and it is Stanley By William H. Cobb. Detroit: Wayne ous extramarital affairs" of one of the who has become more vulnerable. For State University Press, 2000. 263 union officers, noted in that footnote, anyone interested in how the South pages. $34.95. change the reader's perception of the has been represented on stage and in shooter from suspicious crank to film, there is no better place than Radical Education in the Rural South understandably aggrieved husband. It Kolin's history of Streetcar. is

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day. They, in turn, went on to influ- panache. Bass, the author or coauthor he radically changed course and ence others in a measure dispropor- of six books, and Thompson, an inves- established himself in 1948 as the tionate to their small numbers. This tigative editor for the Washington Post, segregationist candidate of the history helps to clarify the stories of a are seasoned reporters, who have long Dixiecrat party. The Dixiecrat rebel- number of other historical entities covered Thurmond. lion broke the solid South attach- and movements. This book issignificant for shedding ment to the Democratic party that The story of Commonwealth light on Thurmond's place and time. had existed since the late 19th cen- College continues to resonate in the South Carolina holds a unique spot in tury and opened the way to the rise present, and knowing more about Southern history. It represented a dis- of the Republican party in the 1950s this experiment in education helps tinctive society of Low Country and after. Thurmond's legacy is a us think about the relationship of planters with ties to the Caribbean most significant one in reshaping the jobs and education, about teaching and upcountry yeoman with the national Republican party, promot- methods in higher education, and fiercely individualistic and violent ing a two-party South, helping elect certainly about the difficulties of cre- ways found throughout the South's Richard Nixon, and changing the ating any new school. Perhaps the hill country. Thurmond is from orientation of the Supreme Court. lesson of Commonwealth College Edgefield County, one of the South's Thurmond's racial politics are a (and a reason it was not a complete most famous, and notorious, places, major theme of this biography. Other failure) was the very reason it could home of planter and U.S. Senator than George Wallace, no politician not succeed-its paradoxical nature. James Henry Hammond in the 19th represented resistance to civil rights Although there were certainly more century and Ben Tillman, the rabid more clearly than Thurmond. He fil- immediate issues of personality and racist who became U.S. Senator in ibustered against the 1957 Civil politics that could easily have led to the 20th century. "Blood ran thicker Rights Act in a marathon perfor- its failure, this history clearly shows and honor ran hotter in Edgefield," mance that still is a record in the the limitations inherent in such a Bass and Thompson write, "a county Senate. When pressures forced the venture and so perhaps allows us to more Faulknernian than William South to abandon segregation, try more workable ventures. Cobb Faulkner's and seared by a history of Thurmond adapted to the new reali- celebrates the sense of mission and explosive political violence." ties and began courting and winning the intellectual ferment of the place The biography also illuminates the African American votes. Unlike and the times, and he leaves me post-World War II South.A hero of Wallace, Thurmond never recanted wholeheartedly echoing his last sen- the war, Thurmond was elected gov- his earlier segregationist views and tence, "But wasn't it great while it ernor of South Carolina after the war even denied they were as harsh as lasted!" That goes for the book, too. as a reforming New Deal liberal, but they were. ELAINE H. SCOTT The biography also represents the Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson most detailed investigation of Thurmond's relationship with Essie 01' Strom: An Unauthorized Mae Washington, a black woman Biography of Strom , who likely was his child. Thurmond Thurmond. financially supported her and visited her several times each year while she By Jack Bass and Marilyn W. was a student at South Carolina Thompson. Marietta, Georgia: State College. The authors make Longstreet Press, 1998. 2n pages. good use of their understanding of $24.00. historical patterns of white men with "colored offspring," in the language South Carolina voters reelected of the older South. They compare Strom Thurmond to his sixth eight- Thurmond's relationship with that year term as United States Senator in of Faulkner's grandfather, who sired 1996, and he will be more than a hun- an African American child. dred years old when his term expires. Jack Bassnow teaches at the College He is undeniably one of the South's of Charleston, but he formerly taught most influential politicians in the An Unauthoriud Biography in the Southern Studies curriculum at 20th century, and this biography the Center, and this book draws from traces his career with wonderful of STROM THUMIOND his interdisciplinary understanding of

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 19 Reading the South continued Call for Papers The 30th Annual Faulkner & the South to place Thurmond's story to consider the novel as a stand- Yoknapatawpha Conference is a broad perspective that will enter- alone work. In fact, the text's "Faulkner and the tain and inform readers. strengths are confined to its relation- Ecology of the South" CHARLES REAGAN WILSON ship to Gone with the Wind; a reader unfamiliar with Mitchell's text The University of Mississippi would be hard- pressed to find any J uly 20~25, 2003 The Wind Done Gone. merit in the novel. However, when The concept of ecology has come to have a compared to Gone with the Wind, dual focus, referring to the systems of relations By Alice Randall. New York: Randall's work is interesting, if only that exist both in the natural world and the Houghton Mifflin Company, 200l. in discerning how she will next constructed world. These systems, one pertain- 210 pages. $22.00. upend Mitchell's text. Randall over- ing to the relationships between natural organ- turns Mitchell's Civil War saga large- isms and their physical environments, the When Alice Randall first tried to ly through point of view. Not only is other with human groups and their social as publish The Wind Done Gone, Cynara our narrator, but Randall well as physical environments, are increasingly Margaret Mitchell's heirs protested. also explores other neglected char- regarded as interdependent. As Lawrence Buell They asserted that her novel, by acters' secret pain: Mammy's passion has recently put it, one of the major tasks of turns deemed a parody, a critique, for Gerald and obsession with ecocriticism "is to put 'green' and 'brown' land- and a neo-slave narrative, borrowed Scarlett,Ellen's tragic affair with her scapes, the landscapes of exurbia and industri- too heavily from Mitchell's Gone cousin "Feeleepe," Belle Watling alization, in conversations with each other." with the Wind to be considered a lit- and Ashley Wilkes's homosexuality. One of the aims of the 2003 conference is to erary wotk. in its own right. After a It is for this reason that Randall explore that "conversation" as it exists in highly publicized legal battle in has been called a literary spokes- Faulkner's fiction. Throughout his career which the court wrangled with the woman for both African Americans Faulkner was attentive to the communities of definition of parody,Houghton and for homosexuals. According to Jefferson and human groupings-familial, town Mifflin won the right to publish Toni Morrison, Quincy Jones, Yusef and country, white, African American, and Randall's book in 2001. Komunyakaa, Ishmael Reed, and Native American-and to the specific settings of The legal furor surrounding the Henry Louis Gates Jr., Randall has those groups within their natural and construct- recent publication of The Wind Done created a classic parody that assails ed environments. The play of setting and indi- Gone has not been matched by equal racism. For Fred Goss, of the vidual and group dynamics is constant, as the critical acclaim. Randall's novel Advocate, Randall "strikes a blow for human vacillates between struggle against the takes the form of diary entries from gays and lesbians" since the only two various forms of environment and a desire to act Scarlett O'Hara's mulatto half-sister, positive white characters in her in accord with them. Cynara, and inverts Old South myths novel are homosexual. It is also possi- Here are some of the questions that might celebrated in Gone with the Wind. In ble to view Randall's work as a femi- be addressed: How does Faulkner's fiction Randall's vision, blacks are secretly nist/postmodern retelling of Gone develop and change in its depiction of the eco- in control, determining not only the with the Wind since Cynara claims logical situation? Do ecological issues become course of their own lives but also the the story for herself, using only her moral and ethical issues in the fiction? Is there lives of their "masters," engineering own viewpoint as the barometer of any kind of consistent Yoknapatawpha ecolo- their marriages and masterminding truth, and traverses a journey to love gy? How does the fiction treat the phenomena life on the plantation. Mitchell's sim- within the complicated context of of weather, "natural" disaster, the relations ple (minded) slaves Mammy, Pork, the postbellum South. between town and county, animal and human? and Prissy become Mama, Garlic, Perhaps this is the vigor of To what extent does Falkner's fiction reflect and Miss Priss, controlling and sub- Randall's vision: she acknowledges the larger Southern ecological situation within verting Lady (Miss Ellen), Planter the convoluted bonds of race, gender, which much of that fiction takes place? (Gerald), Other (Scarlett), Mealy and class in the South. As Cynara We are inviting 50-minute plenary addresses Mouth (Melanie), R. (Rhett), and writes, "When you can't protect a and IS-minute papers for this conference. Dreamy Gentleman (Ashley). Tara thing you love, it's'natural to come to Plenary papers consist of approximately 6,000 becomes Tata, Twelve Oaks isTwelve hate that thing a little bit more each words and will be published by the University Slaves Strong as Trees, and Cynara and every time it's injured." Randall's Press of Mississippi.Short papers consist of usurps many of Scarlett's best scenes heroine comes to understand that approximately 2,500 words and will be deliv- from Mitchell's book. hatred as she learns to forgive, and ered at panel sessions. Randall's prose is inconsistent, eventually to love, her mother, her For details, consult the Center's Web site sometimes awkward, and only occa- race, and herself. (www.olemiss.edu/depts/south) or e-mail sionally lyrical, so that it is difficult KATE COCHRAN Donald Kartiganer ([email protected]).

Page 20 Winter 2002 The Southern Register SFA Field Trip Feast Here Tonight: A Benefit for Ronni Announced Held February 8 in Louisville Join the Southern Foodways Alliance Louisville, Kentucky, restaurateurs joined with national cookbook authors for Feast for its second Field Trip, A Taste of the Here Tonight: A Benefit for Ronni, on Friday,February 8th. Ronni Lundy, an SFA Texas Hill Country, to be held June 14- founder, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer late last year. 15 in and around the city of Austin, This special benefit paired cookbook authors with Louisville area restaurants to Texas. Over the course of a day and half, raise funds to help offset Lundy's medical expenses. Restaurants collaborated with the we will explore the idea of where the cookbook authors to design special dinners featuring the author's recipes. Authors South ends and the West begins. were on hand to autograph books. Scheduled to coincide with Austin's The benefit was sponsored in part by Brown-Forman, the Camberley Brown Hotel, Juneteenth celebration, this Field Trip FSA Group, Gourmet magazine, Hawley-Cooke Booksellers, the Seelbach Hilton, the highlights, among other distinctive Southern Foodways Alliance, White Lily, and Woodford Reserve. regional foods, barbecue. We're plan- More than 15 area restaurants participated, including Asiatique, Baxter Station, ning pit boss panels that take stock of Club Grotto, the English Grill, Equus,Harper's, Holly Hill Inn, Jack Fry's, Jicama, the region's complimentary German, Lilly's, Lynn's Paradise CafE, Napa River Grill, the Oakroom, the Patron, Rudyard African American, and Hispanic influ- Kipling, Shariat's, Vince Staten's Barbecue, and Winston's. ences. And you can be sure that there Featured authors were Ben and Karen Barker, Crescent Dragonwagon, Nathalie will be ample opportunities to sample Dupree, John T. Edge,John Egerton, Roy Finamore,Damon Fowler, Sarah Fritschner, the best of the pits when we head out on Jessica Harris, Matt and Ted Lee, Louis Osteen, and Jane Lee Rankin. a tour of nearby smoke shacks, from Also, 100 illustrated, first editions of The Monroe Elegies, Lundy's monograph on Kreutz Market in Lockhart to Mueller's Bill Monroe, were on sale at various locations around Louisville, including Hawley in Taylor. Cooke Booksellers (502-895-6789). At press time, a few copies remained. , Product sampling and a cooking class will take place at one of the region's most popular culinary destinations, Central It's How You Pick the Crab: An Oral Market, while accommodations- offered at the reduced rate of $125 per Portrait of Eastern Shore Crab Picking night-will be provided by the venerable Driskill Hotel. Registration, priced at This lovely paperback monograph, which focuses upon the crabbing communi- $135 for members and $150 for non- ties of Maryland's Eastern Shore, is the culmination of three years of research on members, may be accomplished by e- the crab picking industry's cultural and economic history. The work uses oral his- mailing [email protected]. tories with crab pickers and packinghouse owners, and represents a collaborative effort between the pickers and folklorist Kelly Feltault. You can order the book through the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by calling 410-745-2916 and ask- Philosophy and Food ing for the museum store. Conference Debuts Know Thyself: Philosophy and the 2002 Southern Foodways Symposium to Explore Human Condition, the first Philosophy and Food Conference, will be held on Barbecue Culture October 17..20 the campus of Mississippi State University on April 5-6. For informa- The dates are set for the 2002 edition of the Southern Foodways Symposium: tion about events, speakers, and regis- October 17-20, here in Oxford,Mississippi. This year's theme is barbecue culture. tration, contact Glen Kuehn at Look for more details to come. Registration opens late in the summer. [email protected]. Glory Foods Scholarship Winners

Three students from three Southern to Australia on a study-abroad program to home and the emotional attachments states received what many chefs, food examine the country's cuisine and food that people make with food," said Liburd, writers, and food lovers sought for development. "I have learned more about who hopes to teach and conduct addi- months: admission to the sold-out Southern food culture, the history and tional research after graduation. "I really Fourth Annual Southern Foodways how it evolved," she said of her experi- enjoyed attending the conference." Symposium held at the University of ence in Oxford. McCarter, a first-year student among Mississippi October 25-28,2001. Scholarship recipient Leandris Liburd, an inaugural class of culinary arts students The winners were Kalisha Blair of a second-year medical anthropology at Culinard, said curiosity drove him to Johnson and Wales University in graduate student, is on an educational apply for a scholarship. Currently engaged Charleston, South Carolina,Leandris leave from her job at the Centers for in food research, he said he hasn't yet Liburd of Emory University in Atlanta, Disease Control in Atlanta. She is study- chosen a culinary profession, but thinks Georgia, and Lee D'andre McCarter of ing diabetes prevention and manage- the symposium helped provide him with Culinard: The Culinary Institute of ment and its relation to obesity in direction. "The sky's the limit," McCarter Virginia College in Birmingham, African American women. Her research said. "There are so many aspects I want to Alabama. centers on the role eating plays in social stop and take a sober look at." These scholarships were sponsored by interactions in the African American The SFA hopes to repeat this scholar- Glory Foods. The company's president, culture and the distinctions, if any, ship program for 2002. For further infor- the late Bill Williams, was a graduate of between soul food and Southern cuisine. mation, contact SFA director John T the Culinary Institute of America and "There's something about food and Edge. was committed to enhancing the pres- ence of African Americans in the food Sad News: Bill Williams of Glory Foods Passes industry. Scholarships covered the $325 conference cost, as well as $475 for trav- SFA is sad to report that Bill Williams, el and lodging expenses. The three win- president and co-founder of Glory Foods, ners submitted the best essays that died on Thursday, December 27, following explored connections between the farm complications from a heart attack. He was and the table in the South. 57. A pioneer in Southern food product Blair said she has been watching cook- manufacturing, Williams spoke at the ing shows since she was eight years old. 2000 Southern Foodways Symposium. "Cooking is the only thing I could ever Family members request that memorial think of doing," said the Washington, tributes to Williams be made in the form D.C., native, who is a line cook at Edgar's of contributions to the American Heart Restaurant on the Wild Dunes Resort in Association or the Kidney Foundation. Charleston. After school, she plans to go

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, VISIT US AT OUR WEB SITE, www.olem;ss.edu/depts/south/foodwaysorcallJohnT.Edge.SFAO;recror.at 662.915.5993 or v;a ema;! at johnt@olem;ss.edu Historic Delta School Being Saved

A historic schoolhouse in Drew, Mississippi, will be restored thanks to a $382,000 African American Heritage Preservation grant from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The school was built for black children in 1928 through the philanthropic efforts of Julius Rosenwald and served as the desegregated elementary school in Drew in the late 1970s. The structure, known locally as the "Little Red Schoolhouse" was abandoned in the 1980s and fell into disrepair. The Holly Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Drew purchased the building, hoping to restore it for use as a community center. In 2001, Luther Brown, from Delta State University, and Susan Glisson, from the University of Mississippi, pre- pared the grant application, which calls for the original structure to be refur- University of Mississippi students take a break from work at the "Little Red bished and opened as a community cen- Schoolhouse" in Drew, Mississippi. ter offering special services to the local youth and elderly people. Two adjacent structures that were added in the 1950s will be "moth-balled" to prevent van- dalism and trespassing into those unsafe structures. Along with Drew community Lynn & Stewart Gammill members, Brown and Glisson serve on an advisory board that will oversee the Gallery project. Last fall, Southern Studies students EXHIBITION SCHEDULE and members of Students Envisioning Equality through Diversity (SEED) from the University of Mississippi, students January 7 - March 15, 2002 August 19 - October 18, 2002 and faculty from Delta State, and mem- Black Rodeo One Family bers of the Sunflower County Freedom Ken Jones Vaughn Sills School, an after-school and summer tutoring program, gathered to help March 18 - May 31 ,2002 October 21,2002 - January 31,2003 launch the project. They spent a day Yoknapawwpha 2001 : Town and 25 Years of Studying the South removing damaged furniture and refuse Country Center for the Study of from the schoolhouse to prepare it for Southern Studies Documentary Southern Culture structural improvements to be paid for Photography Students Anniversary Exhibition by the grant. Residents of Drew assisted the volun- June 3 - August 16, 2002 teers and provided lunch for everyone. Ms. Booth's Garden They shared fond memories of their days Jack Kotz at "Little Red." Since then, members of the local community have continued the cleanup of the building. Professional The Gammill Gallery, located in Barnard Observatory, is work will soon begin on the project, open Monday through Friday, which is due to be complete within 8:00 a,m.~5:00 p.m., except for University holidays. three years. Telephone: 662~915~5993. PRESTON LAUTERBACH

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 23 Students Help Clean Old Cemetery Near Oxford

The Oxford Homeschool Network has been cleaning and beautifying the Buckner-Craig-Isom Cemetery (Old Taylor Road, two miles south of Highway 6), burial site of some of the original settlers of Lafayette County. Included in this graveyard is John J. Craig, who donated part of the 50 acres of land to the Lafayette County Board of Police for a county seat, which became the town of Oxford. In addition to the 11 family graves, there are also many rock-marked graves of migrant workers, thought to be Italian or Swiss, who died in a nearby train wreck. As part of a community service and hands-on learning project, the Oxford Homeschool Network has cleared the dense overgrowth from the graves, spread mulch, repeatedly cleaned up an Students cleaning the Buckner-Craig-lsom Cemetery near Oxford are Frank Shughart inordinate amount of roadside litter, and (left) and Dylan Reithel. planted daffodils. They have also plant- ed 10 mums and two flats of pansies donated by Jones Nursery and a half flat dents about the early settlers. Percy the David Reese Chapter of the of pansies donated by the Garden received a master's degree in Southern Daughters of the American Revolution Center. Studies in May 1994. in 1990. Anne Percy, who is currently writing The cemetery was donated to the HILARY SHUGHART a history of Oxford, spoke to the stu- Center for Study of Southern Culture by

A Note to Those Interested in Traditional Country Music

Nashville continued its destruction of blitzkrieg-very quickly, so media and The black humor on the streets in its musical history this week (December fans would not have time to react and Nashville is to refer to the site as "The 26-27) with the sudden and unexpected protest. And it was done during a time Country Music Hole of Fame." A few demolition of the original Country Music when many were on holiday vacations. friends have tried to pick up bricks as Hall of Fame Building. Located on 16th The building was owned by BMI-can't souvenirs, but BMI guards tend to run Avenue, at the head of Music Row, the blame Gaylord here-and there were them off. In the meantime. over at the building with its familiar barnlike facade rumors that it would be visitor's center, new Hall of Fame, assistant director and had become at one time the single image then an adjunct to BMI for songwriters head of special projects and publica- most associated with Nashville. Hall of Fame, and for a time as a possible tions, Paul Kingsbury, has resigned.John The building was opened with much set of songwriters offices (in the basement Knowles, the resident computer guru, hoopla on March 31,1967; the upstairs portion). But the final decision was-to has also resigned. part contained exhibits and a gift shop; make it a parking lot. The Nazi strategy with the old HOF downstairs were the archives, reading No one knows what happened to the building worked-there was not a word room, and offices of Country Music Walkway of Stars~whether it was sim- about it on any local TV or radio sta- Foundation staff. On the entranceway ply ground up under the bulldozer's tread tion, and only an odd, lop-sided story in was the "Walkway of Stars" in which or somehow saved. No one knows what the Tennessean. One day it was there- "lesser" entertainers were enshrined with will become of the wonderful warren of the next gone. "Disappeared" is the term a gold star and their names-for a fee of basement offices and passages that go on used by the Argentea hit squads. So- $1,000 each, most of which was raised by for miles. Nobody knows if they even Happy New Year from Nashville, the generous stars or fan clubs. managed to get the rest of the beautiful, town that used to be Music City. The destruction of the old Hall of Fame custom-built record cabinets to some- CHARLES WOLFE was done in a manner befitting a Nazi place safe.

Page 24 Winter 2002 The Southern Register Old Alabama Town

Within a fewblocksof the state capitol the crown jewel house museum. Open Monday through Saturday, and amid the trafficnoises of downtown Preservation continues this spring as Old Alabama Town offers informa- Montgomery,a surpriseawaits-an oasis the Foundation starts restoration tive and entertaining tours from 9:00 ofbuildingsand gardensrepresenting"the work on the 1850s Noble House, a.m. to 3:00 p.m. For additional way it was." Old Alabama Town is an which will be followed by several information, write Old Alabama J.. open-air museum interpreting central other restorations. Town, 301 Columbus Street, Alabama's history, architecture, and Landmarks sponsors a variety of Montgomery, AL 36104, or inquire lifestyle with authentic structures and programs in Old Alabama Town, by telephone (888-240-1850), e-mail artifactsfromthe settlement, antebellum, including lectures and exhibitions, ([email protected]), or and postbellumerasof Alabama'shistory. seminars for teachers, specialty tours, the Web (www.oldalabamatown.com). Developed and administered by workshops, and educational programs MARY ANN NEELEY Landmarks Foundation for the city for some 35,000 children annually. In of Montgomery, the site has a unique addition, Landmarks cosponsors a Editor's Note: Landmarks Foundation are collection of both high style and number of other events such as con- presently seeking applications for the posi- vernacular architecture, including certs with the Alabama Jazzand Blues tion of executive director and Old Alabama 1850s Italianate and Greek Revival Federation and out-of town historic Town. See announcement on this page. townhouses and cottages, a circa tours with Huntingdon College.

Log Cabin (left) and Research in Progress 1815 tavern, and an 1898 one-room schoolhouse. The latter two are in the Living Block, which also includes the Country Doctor's Executive Director Position Office, Corner Grocery, Carriage Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, Alabama, as administrator for the city House, Grange Hall, plus Log Cabin, of Montgomery,operates Old Alabama Town, a public, open-air museumconsist- Dogtrot, and Shotgun houses. ing of approximately 40 structures ranging from a one-room log cabin to double- In the Working Block there is a column mansions. Landmarks is a major force in the preservation and restoration sense of productivity as guides relate of the city's historic structures and in the interpretation and presentation of cen- the stories of cotton at the Gin, of tral Alabama's architecture, history, and culture.Landmarks is seeking a full-time corn at Canary Green's Grist Mill, of executive director. the work of blacksmiths, druggists, Candidates should be visionaries and have demonstrated interpersonal and and printers. Early Alabamians leadership skills. The position consists of personnel and budget oversight, grant engaged in spinning, weaving, and administration, fundraising, membership and program development. A complete wood carving, and crafts people are job description and information about salary will be available May 1, 2002. frequently on hand to demonstrate. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Request an application Music fills the air daily, and all form from Mark Willis, City Personnel Department, P.O. Box 1111, Montgomery, acoustical players are welcome for AL 36111 and submit the completed form to him with a resume and a one-page the Second Saturday Jam Sessions. narrative describing interest in the position, summarizingqualifications, and list- The Ordeman-Mitchell Town- ing the names and contact information of references. house was the first restoration and is

The Southern Register Winter 2002 Page 25 The Society for the Study of Southern \0/ Literature will meet March 14-16 at the The Historic New Orleans Collection University of Louisiana in Lafayette. will sponsor the exhibition The Vast The theme "Southern Literature in Country of Louisiana: The Founding Black and White" will be examined in Years, 1682-1731, through May 11, numerous sessions, including a keynote TJpcaming Events of InterJst 2002. Beginning with La Salle's claim address by sociologist John Shelton that expanded the French Empire in Reed, a panel on "Welty and Race" led North America southward from the by Suzanne Marrs, and the paper "Afro- Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, the Creole Color Prejudice in the Stories of exhibition uses nearly 100 maps, books, Eloise Bibb Thompson (1878-1928)" by documents, prints, drawings, and arti- Joan Wylie Hall. Other scholars sched- facts to highlight the exploration, settle- uled to present papers are Barbara Ewell, ment, and financial history of the Katie Henninger, John Lowe, Ed tion, call 504-581-ll44 or e-mail colony's first 50 years. The Vast Country Piacentino, and Frank Shelton. Anne [email protected]. of Louisiana is free and open to the pub- Goodwyn Jones will be on hand to dis- lic Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 cuss the impact of her pioneering book a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 533 Royal Street. Tomorrow Is Another Day, published 20 Tennessee Williams went to New For more information, call 504-523- years ago. Award-winning author Tim Orleans in 1938 and lived there on and 4662. Gautreaux, who teaches fiction at off until his death in 1983. The Historic Southeastern University, will give a New Orleans Collection recently reading. Registration is $60 for faculty, obtained a large and important collec- The Library of Virginia and Colonial $30 for students. tion of the playwright's manuscripts, Williamsburg recently opened the exhi- SSSL membership is.open to anyone photographs, and memorabilia. On dis- bitionJefferson and the Capitol of Virginia. interested in the study of Southern liter- play through April 6, 2002, is a selection The centerpiece of the exhibition is the ature and culture. Members receive the from the newly acquired materials that 18th-century model of the building SSSL newsletter, published twice a year document the development and various based on Jefferson's design and commis- in April and November, and are eligible productions of Sweet Bird of Youth. The sioned by him while serving as minister to participate in SSSL panels and meet- exhibition, on view at the Williams of France. Also on display are plans and ings. Annual dues are $10. Make regis- Research Center, 410 Chartres Street, is elevations that demonstrate the evolu- tration check and/or dues payable to free and open to the public. For more tion of Jefferson's thinking on the design SSSL and mail to C. Ralph Stephens, information, call 504-598- 7171. of the Capitol as a public space. Jefferson SSSL Treasurer; Humanities & Arts, and the Capitol of Virginia will continue CBCC-Essex; 7201 Rossville Blvd.; \0/ through June 15 at the Library of Baltimore, MD 21237. The Holly Springs Garden Club will Virginia, located at 800 East Broad \0/ host its 64th annual pilgrimage April Street in historic downtown Richmond. 19-21,2002. Seven historic antebellum For details, call 804-692-3592. The Tennessee Williams/New homes will be open for tours, including Orleans Literary Festival will celebrate Walter Place (1858-59), a blend of \0/ its 16th anniversary March 20-24 with a Gothic and Greek Revival styles, home The Popular Culture Association in five-day program honoring the leg- of General and Mrs. U. S. Grant during the South/American Culture Association endary playwright and the literary her- the planning of the Vicksburg cam- in the South Conference will meet in itage he inspired. Roy Blount Jr., Rick paign; Wakefield (1858 ), a newly Charlotte, N.C., October 3-5,2002. Bragg, Melissa Bank, and Jonathan restored Greek Revival home with clas- Papers on all aspects of popular culture Coleman, among others, will conduct sical murals entitled Songs of Orpheus in are welcome. Deadline for submissions: master classes for writers and readers. the entrance hall; and Strawberry Plains May 15, 2002. Awards are given annually The program will include more than (1851), a two-story Greek Revival home to outstanding graduate student papers. two dozen panel discussions, celebrity now, with its surrounding 2,000 acres, The association publishes two journals. interviews, and performances of the Southeastern Headquarters of the Direct inquiries to Elizabeth Cummins Williams's plays Sweet Bird of Youth, National Audubon Society. Three ante- ([email protected]) or Larry Vonalt Suddenly Last Summer, and the one-act bellum churches, the Marshall county ([email protected]), Department of The Traveling Companion. Also, Historical Museum, the Ida B. Wells Art English,University of Missouri-Rolla Manhattan Theatre Club will read Gallery, and the Kate Freeman Clark Rolla,MO 65409-0560.Telephone: excerpts from The Letters of Tennessee Art Gallery will also be open for tours. 573-341-4622. Web site: middleeng- Williams, a new publication edited by For additional information, call 662- lish.org/PCASACAS/. Williams scholars. For more informa- 252-3260 or 662-252-4517.

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Center for Arkansas Studies at WARREN ABLES is first year M.A. University of Mississippi.She is the student in Southern Studies who author of Shirley Jackson: A Study of UALR. graduated from Louisiana State the Short Fiction and articles on HILARY SHUGHART is the coordina- University with a B.A. in History. Tennessee Williams, William tor of the Oxford Homeschool He is currently researching his thesis Faulkner,Grace King, Frances Network. Born in Boston, she grew on the cotton picker and its histori- Newman, and other authors. up in India, Turkey, and Indonesia. cal impact on the Mississippi Delta. DONALD W. KARTIGANER holds the After studying in New York, at the Sorbonne, and in Virginia, she set- ROBERT H. BRINKMEYER JR. is pro- William Howry Chair in Faulkner tled in Oxford with her husband and fessor and chair of English at the Studies at the University of University of Arkansas. Among his Mississippi and is director of the two sons, Willie and Frank. publications are Remapping Southern Faulkner Conference. He is the RANA WALLACE is a second-year Literature: Contemporary Southern author of The Fragile Thread: The graduate student in Southern Studies Writers and the West, Katherine Anne Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels. at the University of Mississippi. She Porter's Artistic Development, The Art JAMIE KORNEGAY is a bookseller at received her B.A. in English from and Visionof Flannery O'Connor, and Square Books, editor of the store's the Florida State University in 1999. Three Catholic Writers of the Modern Dear Reader newsletter, and a free- She was an intern at the Southern South. lance writer. He lives in Water Cultural Heritage Foundation in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the KATE COCHRAN is a fifth-year doc- Valley, Mississippi. toral candidate in the English summer of 2001. COLBY H. KULLMAN is professor of Department at the University of English at the University of DAVID WHARTON is assistant profes- Mississippi. Her scholarly interests Mississippi. Among his publications sor and director of documentary pro- include 20th-century American lit- are articles on Tennessee Williams jects at the Center, where is teaches erature, Southern literature, and and other modern dramatists, Theatre courses in Southern Studies, field- myth & allegory. She has essays Companies of the World, and Speaking work, and photography. He is the forthcoming in the New Hibernia on Stage: Interviews with author of The Soul of a Small Texas Review and the Southern Literary Contemporary American Playwrights. Town: Photographs, Memories, and Journal. He is coeditor of Studies in American History from McDade. JOHN T. EDGE, director of the Drama: 1945-Present. CHARLES REAGAN WILSON is direc- Southern Foodways Alliance, writes PRESTON LAUTERBACH is a first-year tor of the Center and professor of about Southern food and travel. He graduate student in the Southern History and Southern Studies. is the author of A Gracious Plenty: Studies Program at the University of Among his publications are Baptized Recipes and Recollections from the Mississippi. He is a graduate of Flagler in Blood: The Religion of the Lost American South and Southern Belly. College and is pursuing his interest Cause and Judgment and Grace in His articles have appeared in Food & in documentary studies. Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner Wine, Gourmet, and other publica- to Elvis. tions. MARY ANN NEELEY has been execu- tive director of Old Alabama Town CHARLES WOLFE is the author of AMY EVANS is a first-year Southern in Montgomery,Alabama, for more Tennessee Strings: The Story of Studies graduate student from than two decades. She is the author Country Music in Tennessee, Kentucky Houston, Texas. She received her of several publications on the history Country:Folk and Country Music of B.F.A. in Printmaking from the and culture of Montgomery and cen- Kentucky, and numerous other publi- Maryland Institute College of Art in cations. He teaches in the English 1993 and is applying her experience tral Alabama. Department at Middle Tennessee as an artist and art educator to her ELAINE H. SCOTT is former chair of State University. work at the Center for the Study of the Arkansas State Board of Southern Culture. Education and a member of the Education Commission of the States JOAN WYLIE HALL teaches in the 1987-1997.She is editor of the English Department at the Ledbetter Monograph Series at the

Page 27 The Southern Register Winter 2002 Become a rlen• The Center for the Study of Southern Culture • Living Blues®: The Magazine of the African at the University of Mississippi has gained an American Blues Tradition (bimonthly) international reputation for innovative • New projects include the MississiPPi education and scholarship on the American Encyclopedia and a new edition of the South. The Center administers B.A. and M.A. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture programs in Southern Studies, sponsors research and documentary projects on all aspects of Conferences, Symposia, and Lectures Southern culture, and encourages understanding • Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book, of the South through publications, media April, 11-14,2002 productions, lectures, performances, and • Twenty-Ninth Faulkner Conference, July 21- exhibitions. This year the Center celebrates 25 26, 2002 years of excellence. By contributing annually to • Fourth Southern Foodways Symposium, Friends of the Center, you ensure that this October 17-20, 2002 valuable work will continue to grow. •Weekly Brown Bag lecture series on Southern topics during the academic year Activities and Accomplishments • Symposia on The Media and the Civil Rights Leadership in Southern Studies Movement, 1987, Civil Rights and the Law, •Developed the nation's first degree program in 1989, and Southern Landscapes: Past, Southern Studies, beginning with a Bachelor Present, Future, 1996 of Arts degree in 1979 •Added an M.A. program in Southern Studies Documentary and Media Projects in 1986 • A cultural inventory of Vicksburg and Warren • Sponsored the three-year (1986-89) Ford County, Mississippi Foundation Project, aimed at broadening the • A cultural and historical documentary project I study of the South, especially encouraging at Ichauway, a 28,000-acre plantation in the redefinition of Southern culture to Georgia incorporate the experiences of blacks, ethnic • An oral history of the Mississippi timber groups, and women industry, concentrating on Pearl River County Publications • First Monday, a photographic and oral history • Encyclopedia of Southern Culture of North Mississippi's oldest ongoing trade day • MississiPPi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and • Old Ways:Church and Family, an ongoing Youth project using photographs and oral histories to • The South: A Treasury of Art and Literature document two rural churches in North • The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide Mississippi • A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections • Ongoing studies of Lafayette County from the American South • Photography Exhibitions in the Center's Lynn •Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin]. and Stewart Gammill Gallery Dain • MississiPPi Portrait: The Farm Security •Lower Pearl River's Piney Woods: Its Land and Administration Photographs, 1935-1940, a CD- People Rom distributed to libraries and schools • MississiPPi Folklife: The Magazine of the throughout the state MississiPPi Folklore Society (annual)

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