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Abstract: The Painted Bunting is unquestionably the most colorful songbird in the southern United States (cover photo, Figure 1). The male exhibits dazzling splashes of blue, green, yellow, and red plumage, and the reserved female possesses a solid coat of bright green, which blends in with the brush and trees where the nest is located. Because of its limited geographical range and stealthy nature, relatively few birders have experienced the delight of seeing this bird, and its dramatically declining population (Dybas 2018) has further reduced the chances of spotting it.Painted Bunting taken at Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina on May 16, 2022.The Painted Bunting is categorized into two subspecies that are nearly ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Volume 62.4 represents the twelfth issue that we have worked on as an editorial team. As this Winter 2022 issue goes to press, we are beginning our last year of editorial duties as a new team will assume responsibilities in the summer of 2023. Following the kindness of the previous editorial team of Hilda Kurtz and Deepak Mishra in facilitating the transition, we plan to help the new editor(s) as well so that the flagship journal of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers will continue to publish interesting, timely, and high-quality articles about the geography of the American South.Most of our term as an editorial team, which began in the summer of 2019, has coincided with the onset ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00 Issue No:Vol. 62.4 (2022)
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Abstract: In 2012, amidst one of the worst droughts recorded in the southeastern United States, Florida’s Apalachicola Bay oyster industry collapsed. According to the Florida government, excessive salinity, caused by low freshwater flows from the Apalachicola River, devastated the intertidal oyster reefs. Florida feared other aspects of the unique Apalachicola River and Bay ecosystem, a United Nations designated biosphere reserve, were threatened by decreasing levels of freshwater flows (State of Florida 2014). The oyster collapse was not only an ecological concern, but also a threat to the economy and culture of communities in the Apalachicola region that were closely tied to the bay’s ACF Watershed Map (USGS 2018).fishing ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Following a funeral in Pickens County, Georgia, Henry Grady observed that “the South didn’t furnish a thing for the event other than the corpse and the hole in the ground” (Harris 1890, 204). Grady’s coarse observation on the absence of southern-produced funeral implements such as shovels and caskets was, in essence, a call for industrial development in the South in order to reduce the region’s dependence on agriculture. This push for industrialization was successful, as southern states evolved to now produce nearly 20 percent of the nation’s industrial output (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis [BEA] 2022a). The subset of manufactured goods which are consumed overseas, exports, have long been seen as the epitome of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Among the array of fermented beverages produced and consumed by humans, bourbon stands out as a distinctly American contribution, one whose geographic origin is often misattributed solely to Kentucky (Mitenbuler 2015). Many Kentucky distillers leverage this geo-historical association in the marketing of their bourbon, reinforcing the perception that bourbon is a uniquely “Kentucky” product (Minnick 2016). Despite this association with Kentucky, per its legal description, bourbon can be produced anywhere in the United States (US) and bourbon is produced outside of Kentucky (e.g., Garrison Brothers in Stonewall, TX; Breckenridge Distillery in Breckenridge, CO), though in relatively small quantities (Arnold 2021). ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Before beginning this review, I need to state for the sake of transparency that while I do not personally know Laura Kilcer VanHuss, two of the people she cites in her introduction, David Butler and Stephen Hanna, are colleagues of mine. For five years we worked on a project that examined tourism at River Road plantation museums, one of which was Oak Alley Plantation, where Kilcer VanHuss works as a curator.This edited volume can be summarized as a deconstruction and a re-narration of the southern plantation myth. Put plainly; it is not Gone with the Wind. It is its antithesis.The nine essays center around yet counterpose themselves to Marie Adrien Persac’s map/painting Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi, an ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Karl Raitz’s Bourbon Backroads is a fascinating look at the landscape of Kentucky as it was shaped through time by one of the Commonwealth’s signature industries, bourbon distilling. The metaphor of the backroad as a path to help the reader truly get to know and interact with the history is a powerful one. As geographers often advocate, you cannot experience the world from the highway. Backroads, “…reveal how places work” (1) and provide “…the backstory behind how something is made” (1). Raitz does a masterful job of taking us all on a narrative backroad through the Kentucky distilling industry, providing not only historical context, but also a geographic view.Raitz perceives the book as describing both the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Authors Amy Potter, Stephen Hanna, Derek Alderman, Perry Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, David Butler, and their research team, have long been the leaders in plantation tourism research. Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum, representing the culmination of the team’s multi-year, multi-site research project, provides readers with an in-depth look at three plantation museum clusters in the southeastern United States as well as a holistic perspective on what the authors term the “plantation museum assemblage.”In the introduction, the authors establish the rationale for their focus on southern plantation museums. “If slavery is, as Ira Berlin (2004, 1258) argues ‘ground zero for race ... Read More PubDate: 2022-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
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