Learning from Savannah bridges the mostly separate worlds of the history of Savannah’s famed urban plan and the history of the city’s architecture.
In ten surprising, emotionally devastating stories, Will Boast explores the complex ways in which we long for a home, for connection and purpose. The comic mayhem of teenage locals... Læs mere
Executrix begins with a mystery: Why would the author’s father, from whom she had been estranged for more than a decade, change his will in the weeks before his death to make her the executor of his estate?
“If there should ever be a black monarchy in South Carolina,” noted his colonel, “[Rivers] will be its king.” True to this prediction, Rivers went on to serve as a South Carolina state legislator and as one of the first Black mayors in the United States.
Today, few Southerners are aware of the economic, social, technological, and historical significance of the thousands of watermills that once stood along streams across the Southern landscape in the thousands.