Mockingbird Song
sider Middlesboro, Kentucky, for example: During the mid-s a young Canadian capitalist persuaded English investors to buy up ...
Savannah, and Mobile. Charleston had been the South’s second-largest city (after New Orleans) in . It had fallen to third by ...
tice of simply dragging a carcass into the nearest river, however, was hardly unknown. Also not unknown in such urban environmen ...
paper,Farmers’ Register, in , Ruffin eagerly left his rural estate and moved his large family to nearby Petersburg, Virginia ...
View of Petersburg, Virginia, featuring a railroad, ca. . Courtesy The Library of Virginia, Richmond. ...
devoted to the city’s poor farm. Others could be exchanged with farmers: Any cart entering town with a load of hay for the stabl ...
Edmund Ruffin, from a portrait by an unknown artist, ca. . Courtesy The Library of Virginia, Richmond. ...
and the urban environment, Ruffin failed. Millponds may have ultimately given way to private fishing ponds in the country—little ...
s, for half. Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, and even Holly Springs, Mississippi, were scenes of epidemics as well. Holl ...
obliged to clean themselves—at least the neighborhoods of the well-off. The last southern epidemic occurred in . tCleanlines ...
Construction of a sewage disposal plant, Slagheap Village, Alabama, . Photo by Arthur Rothstein. Courtesy Library of Congres ...
South, again mirroring other regions. By the s the South’s and the na- tion’s populations were suburban-majority. What seems ...
evening. Many other downtowns do not fare this well and have descended into dereliction. This was not inevitable, but the conseq ...
workers, cleaners, janitors, and ‘‘handymen’’ receive low pay and low social status; carpenters and masons are well paid and res ...
of the twenty-first century, the government of Kentucky, mainly from civic embarrassment late expressed, fostered with other par ...
By there were an estimated , private housing developments in the United States, , of them in Florida alone. Othe ...
to the subregion where the development occurs. Windrush, in Madison County, Mississippi, north of Jackson, an expensive project ...
thority to what Afro- and Euro-southern women of most social classes had created for many generations: privacy, security, and pe ...
they arose to spoil the perfect lawn of fine fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, or Bermuda or St. Augustine grass. There were general a ...
ors became the alternative to sitting outside or gardening amid the smelly, grinding din. The resurgence of porches in new subur ...
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