As part of the Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts & Letters, I am researching the ways that communities access to news. According to the Local News Initiative, there has been a "net loss" of nearly 2,900 newspapers…
Read MoreIf family trees are credible sources, Peter Allison Lewis, who lived in Spartanburg, SC, from 1725 until 1801 (give or take), is a direct ancestor. It’s hard for me NOT to have some skepticism over family trees: how many of us truly understood, when we first learned about Sarah and Abraham in Sunday School, what lifestyle they lived that gave birth to Ishmael? Go back far enough, I have little doubt that baby Daddy secrets have happened at least once in every family.
Read MoreThe first official day of my fellowship in Spartanburg. The name sounds formal and official: the Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts & Letters. I’m a Watson Brown fellow. Or something like that. Several organizations and people got involved to make this possible.
THAT doesn’t feel daunting.
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