Author or editor of twenty-three books, mainly about the South, sociologist John Shelton Reed helped to found the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of the American South and was a founding coeditor of Southern Cultures. In his lecture he will bring to life people and places before and during the Jazz Age in New Orleans. FREE. Part…
It’s a Southern Thing: Culture in the South in the Early Twentieth Century symposium concludes with three lectures on Saturday, November 5, 9:30–12:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Lecture: Ellen Axson Wilson. Erick D. Montgomery, executive director of Historic Augusta, Inc., discusses the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who had forged a successful career for herself as an artist before becoming First Lady in…
A dazzling Nashville-based family band composed of classically trained siblings and their veteran songwriter parents, the Annie Moses Band is genre defying and unforgettable. For tickets, visit www.imperialtheatre.comor call 706-722-8341.
Explore the magic and whimsy of A Hunt Slonem Menagerie, on display at the Morris Museum of Art through June 4, 2023. An explosion of color, this exhibition features large and small scale electric neo-expressionist oil paintings of bunnies, butterflies, and tropical birds by renowned artist Hunt Slonem. Hunt Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, where his father, a…
The cultural landscape of the American South is shaped and often identified by many things, religion among them. In the popular imagination, religion in the South is distinguished not by its denominations—mainly Protestant, often Evangelical—but by its conservative fundamentalist orientation. The single largest denominational body is the Southern Baptist Convention, and the wide distribution of its many churches is often…