Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait of Georgia gardener Ryan Gainey (1944-2016) with Cooper Sanchez and Matthew Chipman. Gainey is an acclaimed garden designer and author of The Well-Placed Weed: The […]
Lincoln graffiti, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
Ebenezer Creek
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Daffin Park
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Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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Hill Brothers Short Log Harvesting
Oakland Cemetery
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Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Introduction The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley region has a rich tradition of blues music, but if it weren’t for the efforts of field researcher George Mitchell from 1969 until the early 1980s, this blues history would be largely unknown. The Lower Chattahoochee is most well-known as home to Gertrude “Ma” Rainey (1882–1939), one of the most celebrated […]
Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music’s ephemeral and fragile qualities do its archival traces remain relevant and enlivening. To commemorate a century of one of the world’s most influential musics, filmmaker Martin Scorsese produced The Blues (2003), […]