But Still We’re Joined At Heart

In 2022, I received a Cauthen Fellowship from the Alabama Folklife Association and conducted two years of fieldwork on the tradition of the Sacred Harp ‘memorial lesson,’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. That fieldwork resulted in an article for TRIBUTARIES that is part oral history, part reflection, part love letter to a community whose care, nuance, and resilience inspires me every day.