4 Jan

Itinerary

Posted by Rachel

This blog will serve as a functional rough draft of thoughts, findings and observations I make while I travel through various states in the Southeastern U.S. this spring as a recipient of the Geraldine Knight Scott Travel Fellowship.  Here’s a list of cities/towns I’ll pass through and issues I’m looking at in chronological order:

  1. New Orleans, LA
    post-Katrina aftermath and recovery of the fabled New Orleans landscape
  2. Morgan City/Lake Fausse Point Park/Atchafalaya River Basin, LA
    cypress forest mulch logging, swamp tourism, subsidence and loss of signature bayou landscapes
  3. Natchez Trace along Mississippi River, MS
  4. Uniontown, AL
    private Alabama landfill accepts toxic coal ash from 12/08 Kingston, TN slurry spill in the name of economic development
  5. Chattanooga, TN
    VW plant
  6. Greenville, SC
  7. Gatlinburg, TN
    gateway town to Great Smoky Mountains NP, Dollywood, and mountain craft culture
  8. Kingston, TN
    site of record-breaking 12/08 coal plant slurry spill into 2 tributaries of the MS river
  9. Lexington, KY
    bourbon & horse farm economy vs. urban sprawl, Georgetown Toyota plant
  10. Whitesburg-Lynch-Benham, KY
    mountaintop removal, rural mountain culture, and sustainable energy future
  11. Winston-Salem, NC
    Piedmont Research Park
  12. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
    future of RTP, tobacco’s legacy on Durham’s urban landscape, urban expansion of area’s historical universities
  13. Duplin County, NC
    confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and the coastal plain zone of North Carolina
  14. Manteo-Ocracoke Island, NC
    shifting sands and the tourism-dependent landscapes of NC’s barrier islands
  15. Louisville, GA
    showcasing Southern artists in the setting of a small Jefferson County town
  16. Savannah, GA
    urban growth and the image of the city
  17. Cumberland Island National Seashore, GA
    Carnegie family retreat spared from tourism’s grasp
  18. Mobile, AL
    petrochemical landscapes
  19. Baton Rouge, LA
    Angola Prison, petrochemical industries, environmental justice
  20. New Orleans, LA
  21. OAKLAND! phew….

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