Author: Kate Northern

Kudzu is a fast-growing, invasive species of vine predominantly from the South. It’s known for overtaking buildings, forests, and fields, and is notoriously impossible to kill.  In the breadbasket Cradle, The Kudzu grows like any other crop. A fruit of nature’s labor—-mining long past, Here to lay in a bed of vine; “Come,” beckons the […]

Cairo, Illinois, has gained widespread media attention for being an abandoned ghost town at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers—and perhaps more startlingly, it is known as the city whose intense racial violence killed it. Featured in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Cairo has a less-than-stellar history […]