Nice write up at Apartment Therapy about how air conditioning changed our houses, culture, and habits Probably everyone has had this thought at least once a summer, while sweating through …
On January 18th, 2005 the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas sent a letter to the school board of Beebe, a small town of less than 10,000 located in the Northeast Central …
Yale has a nice website where you can view interactive maps on responses to a variety of questions related to the acceptance of climate change. Interestingly, while a majority, including Southerners, …
My journey for understanding the frequently tense relationship between the South and science has led me to an unlikely place—Oakland, California. In what appears to be a former auto body …
Nice write up by David Allison about how air conditioning has fueled Atlanta’s economic growth. Ask anyone what has driven Atlanta’s economic growth in recent decades and they’re likely to …
On a Friday in July of 1986, tornadoes touched down in the suburbs of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. A KARE News11 helicopter caught one of these tornadoes on video, …
There’s something special about a fluffy biscuit. Just ask many of the students who attend Etowah County Schools.It’s the one thing students have not adjusted to doing without when presented …
If you bottled up a caricature of Southern culture and poured it all over a town, you would get Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The streets of Gatlinburg look more like the midway …
Featured image from Kansas City District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Flickr CC). Strewn debris from the EF-5 tornado that struck the Joplin, Mo., area, shown June 14, 2011. By …
Legendary blues singer, Alger “Texas” Alexander was born in Jewett, Texas, north of Houston in 1900. In 1934, Alger composed and sang with his big, deep voice the Frost Texas …
