keri leigh merritt, phd<p>A couple of weeks ago an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archivist</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> emailed me out of the blue to tell me about a specific collection. Turns out she had <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Googled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Googled</span></a> “ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/south" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>south</span></a>” and there I was.</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collection</span></a> is amazing. Shows how there was still widespread <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/malnutrition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malnutrition</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSouth</span></a> into the late <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seventies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seventies</span></a> & early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eighties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eighties</span></a>.</p><p>This might be my next-next book. As <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CVannWoodward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CVannWoodward</span></a> said, “Mint juleps for the few, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pellagra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pellagra</span></a> for the crew!”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>friday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fridaymotivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fridaymotivation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hunger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>