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Ashley Cleveland: Communicating Deep, Profound Things with Just a Few Words
Congratulations, Ashley, for your recent Grammy win! You've made history again.
Southern Edition Recipe Box
Jonathan Biggs: Singing For A Purpose
The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
Ada's Peach Cobbler
Then and Now: Charleston's St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
Ed Harshaw: Capturing the Splendor of the Low Country One Photo at a Time
Photograph: Greg Freeman
View of Downtown Nashville from Shelby Street Bridge
This view of downtown Nashville was taken by Southern Edition editor Greg Freeman on February 9, 2008 from atop the Shelby Street Bridge.
Situated along the Cumberland River, Nashville is a growing metropolis, attracting tourists and conventioneers from all over the world. Though widely known as Music City because of its significance in the recording industry (particularly in the field of country music), Nashville has become an important visual and performing arts center in the South.
Two of the city's most important cultural institutions have opened since the beginning of the 21st Century. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts at 919 Broadway opened in April 2001. Formerly the main post office, the building containing the Frist collection was constructed in the early 1930s under the direction of Marr & Holman, a Nashville architectural firm. A combination of classical and Art Deco styling, the building is located adjacent to the century-old Union Station---A Wyndham Historic Hotel.
Located in the growing SoBro (South of Broadway) district at the terminus of the Shelby Street Bridge, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, opened in 2006, is home to the critically acclaimed Nashville Symphony Orchestra. The building features Orpheus and Eurydice, a limestone relief sculpture by Ray Kaskey, above the center's main entrance. The Birth of Apollo, a bronze nude sculpture by Casey Eskridge, towers above a fountain on the center's grounds at the corner of Symphony Place and Fourth Avenue. In February 2008, the Nashville Symphony secured three Grammy awards for its CD, Made in America.
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Walking Up The King's Highway: The Journey of Soul Gospel
(Southern Edition Editor Greg Freeman's Personal Collection of Black Gospel Music and Memorabilia)
From Their Kitchen to Yours: Recipes from the Old Mill Restaurant, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Bachelor's Retreat: An Historic South Carolina Community Like No Other
From Their Kitchen to Yours: Recipes from the Loveless Cafe, Nashville
Blues Records Fetch Premium Prices in Online Auctions
Four O'Clocks: Timeless Heirloom Flowers Right at Home in the South
Man o' War: The Wonder Horse
Winecoff Hotel: An Atlanta Irony
The debut of Southern Edition on May 7, 2006 might have set a new precedent as far as electronic publications devoted to the South are concerned. Neither a traditional periodical nor an encyclopedia, Southern Edition is a work in progress, covering a diverse array of topics. Continuous, timely updates ensure that frequent visitors can always find something new, educational and interesting.
Greg Freeman, Editor
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The Legacy of Rev. Cleavant Derricks
(includes interview with Bill Gaither!)
The Ryman Auditorium . . . More Than Just The Mother Church of Country Music
Dinkler Hotels: Bastions of Excellence Set Southern Hotelier Apart
Athens Select Plants: Giving the Southern Gardener a Fighting Chance
A Meal So Good You'll . . . Slap Ya Mama! (Even If She Didn't Prepare It)
Worth Quoting . . .
Only since 1960 have scholars and critics begun the serious study of art in the South---a tardiness of attention that has made the region the last frontier in American art studies.
Randolph Delehanty,
from his book Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection
A respected architectural historian and author or co-author of over a dozen books, including the critically acclaimed New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans and Natchez: History, Homes and Gardens, Dr. Delehanty was born in Memphis in 1944.
From 1993 to 1995, while residing in the Faubourg Marigny in New Orleans, Dr. Delehanty served as curator of the University of New Orleans' Ogden Museum of Southern Art, a remarkable collection containing works by Marshall Joseph Smith Jr., Charles Giroux, Marie Atchinson Hull, William Aiken Walker, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Walker Evans, Owen Murphy and even Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams.
In Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), Dr. Delehanty noted that early southern visual art, particularly artists and works of the nineteenth century, received "little attention from northeastern critics." He added, "No body of criticism developed in the South to publicize working artists and to whet the appetites and inform the tastes of collectors. All the elements of high culture are interrelated: the visual arts need the conversation fostered by writing about them in order to heighten visual literacy."
Stirring enthusiasm among important galleries, prominent collectors and authoritative critics in art centers of significance such as San Francisco, Chicago and New York, southern artists today are thankfully overcoming their regional stigma and garnering a national following.
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