“Central to constructs of home and region is memory. Southern memories . . . are the backbone of the region’s identity.” 

I’M A MILITARY BRAT. Both parents in the Navy, to be exact. I’ve lived a little bit of here and a little bit of there: I was born in Hawaii, then moved to Beaufort, South Carolina, then Virginia Beach and Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and “settled” in Albany, Georgia, at the ripe old age of fourteen. I took a piece of each place with me, especially from our home outside of Washington, DC, where the GoGo music’s bounce starts in your ears, moves to your shoulders, then flings itself throughout your body.