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Front Porch

Front Porch Sam Davis–Bill Marsh statue, by E. T. Wickham, Palmyra, Tennessee. Photographed by Tom Rankin, 1984. // Spring 2019 Backward/Forward • 1 ITH THIS ISSUE, Southern Cultures turns twenty-five years old. It’s a source of wonder to recall a distant meeting with friends and supporters in John Shelton Reed’s old oc ffi e at the Institute W for Research in Social Science (now the Odum Institute) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, a tiny group of us screwed up our cour - age (and craziness) and decided to start a new journal about the South. It was our conceit that this place still mattered in a hyper-connected world, and that there would always be something new to say about the American South. To emphasize diversity, we settled on a plural name. Coached, supported, and published by our neighbors at Duke University Press, we cobbled together an inaugural 1993 issue and then launched volume 1, number 1, th - e fol lowing year, which we now claim as our real birth date. Eventually, we found a permanent home with the University of North Carolina Press. We are deeply grateful to both of our publishers; without their help, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry
Southern Cultures , Volume 25 (1) – Apr 16, 2019
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Sam Davis–Bill Marsh statue, by E. T. Wickham, Palmyra, Tennessee. Photographed by Tom Rankin, 1984. // Spring 2019 Backward/Forward • 1 ITH THIS ISSUE, Southern Cultures turns twenty-five years old. It’s a source of wonder to recall a distant meeting with friends and supporters in John Shelton Reed’s old oc ffi e at the Institute W for Research in Social Science (now the Odum Institute) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, a tiny group of us screwed up our cour - age (and craziness) and decided to start a new journal about the South. It was our conceit that this place still mattered in a hyper-connected world, and that there would always be something new to say about the American South. To emphasize diversity, we settled on a plural name. Coached, supported, and published by our neighbors at Duke University Press, we cobbled together an inaugural 1993 issue and then launched volume 1, number 1, th - e fol lowing year, which we now claim as our real birth date. Eventually, we found a permanent home with the University of North Carolina Press. We are deeply grateful to both of our publishers; without their help,

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