Vanderbilt Magazine
Southern Journal
Reflections on the South
Dispatches from the Great Loop
A year on the water offers glimpses of America that the land-locked never experience.
by Dr. Jerry Reves, BA’65, and Jenny Reves
How I Came to the Mountains
When you bring an open heart to Appalachia, a summer can turn into a lifetime.
by Kathy Hutson, MS’70
Autobiography of a White Girl Raised in the South
by Kate Daniels
High Flyer
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. But there are no cross-dressing, crop-dusting, jitterbugging pilots anything like Neil Cargile.
by Ridley Wills II, BA’56
In the Path of the Oil
On the edge of the continent, an ancient bargain is unraveling before our eyes, and even the old-timers don’t know what comes next.
by Frye Gaillard, BA’68
Look for Us in the Kitchen
At the family table, each of us feels loved from every direction and buffered from the ugly parts of life.
by Linda Schlesinger Mabry, BSN’66
All I Want for Christmas Is Another ‘Grandma’
Nothing says holiday cheer like a beloved relative killed off in the third verse.
by Randy Brooks, BA’70
Narrative Drive
When the words finally fall into place, it’s almost as good as spontaneous combustion.
by Kevin Wilson, BA’00
Sweet Affliction
Liberals and conservatives, believers and atheists—all are welcome in the hollow square of Sacred Harp singing.
by David Carlton
Family Inheritance
From Reconstruction to post-civil rights, political activism has been bred in my bones.
by Sheryll Cashin, BE’84
Meet the Ancestors
My Revolutionary forebears put the “Nash” in Nashville.
by Hugh O. Nash Jr., BE’67
Best Laid Plans
A ruthless slave driver's decision to free the people he had exploited leaves questions 150 years later.
by Richard Blackett
The Crop That Built Carolina
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