Shifting the Southern Narrative, or Why I Came Home
June 2019Confronting the difficult truths of a changing Southern landscape. By Lyndsey Gilpin In the faded photo, my grandmother is 14 years old, huddled close to her best friend on a wooden fence somewhere in Eastern Kentucky. She’s wearing a sweater and rolled-up jeans, the humidity frizzing her chestnut-brown hair
We Are All From Somewhere Else
May 2019(Or How I Ended Up in Chadron, Nebraska of all Places)
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Confronting the difficult truths of a changing Southern landscape. By Lyndsey Gilpin In the faded photo, my grandmother is 14 years old, huddled close to her best friend on a wooden fence somewhere in Eastern Kentucky. She’s wearing a sweater and rolled-up jeans, the humidity frizzing her chestnut-brown hair. The Appalachian mountainside climbs straight […]
(Or How I Ended Up in Chadron, Nebraska of all Places)
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In late August 2016, about five minutes from my house, Kenneth Walker, the only black volunteer firefighter in North Tonawanda, New York, received a racist threat in the mail. It read: NIGGERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE FIREFIGHTERS. NO ONE WANTS YOU IN THIS CITY. YOU HAVE UNTIL THE END OF THE WEEK TO RESIGN […]