The Winding Back Roads of Southern History

Welcome to Eclectic contains long-form ruminations on the diverse modern South, education, sustainability, and social justice. This past summer, I went out to Arizona to see my Uncle David, my mother’s older brother who left Montgomery for Phoenix in the early 1970s, a few years before I was born. I hadn’t seen David and my Aunt Laurel in seventeen years, but the visit would still have to be a brief one. We arrived on a Friday, and my wife’s birthday was coming the next week, and moreover Alabama’s primaries were, too—… Read more The Winding Back Roads of Southern History →