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...nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations in the 90s on the FM dial. Back in North Carolina, somewhere south of High Point, National Public Radio's All Things Considered had come through the car speaker, talking of a book named Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls, about life in the mills as people moved into the cities from the sharecropper cabins glimpsed even at that moment, empty and ruined, through the leafy barriers of I-95 -- a landscape explained. In Maryland, the density and grace of America's true culture slides into...
This reinterpretaiton of the Bible was more than a psychological escape from the pains of this world. Rather, it was a practice that eventually defined as "sacred" traditionally secular spaces, such as the cotton fields...
...difficult fiesta scene is finally accomplished, and the star takes a break on the parched and cactus-studded set. Her cheeks and shoulders are wholesomely freckled, her honey-blond hair cropped short and glowing in the desert sun. Dressed in simple cotton and sensible shoes, she looks like a handsome pioneer woman, which is essentially what she plays in her television movie now filming in Tucson...
Some 3,500 Confederate refugees left their pillared mansions and plantations between 1866 and 1867 in what was one of history's more notable organized exoduses of Americans. Immigrants, especially those from the Deep South, were drawn by the promise of cheap land, a booming cotton industry and the existence of slavery, which was tolerated in Brazil until 1888. But not all of them succeeded in making a life here. Tropical diseases, drought and the remoteness of their settlements drove back 80% of the refugees...
...state near what is now Americana did the transplanted prewar Dixie ways take hold. Still, the 94 Confederate ) families who stayed, their fortunes depleted, found homesteading a humbling experience. Few could afford the number of slaves they had back home. "When my mother was a girl here, she picked cotton right alongside the slaves, something she didn't do in Arkansas," drawls Charlotte Ferguson Costarelli, 83, a third-generation descendant...