Martha Graham, ‘An American, A kosmos’: Border-crossing in Martha Graham’s early works by Adeline CHEVRIER-BOSSEAU

“…Frontier (1935), one of Graham’s most famous soli, clearly connects the American Frontier to the construction of female identity, as do American Document (1938) and Appalachian Spring (1944). Graham pioneered a new way for women to dance, to express their femininity and their power: her works, inspired by Native American traditions, Mexican folklore, Greek mythology and literature from both sides of the Atlantic, depict strong women who are not afraid of pushing boundaries.Creating an American choreographic tradition also meant exploring its literary legacy for Martha Graham: this paper therefore also delves into the way the Whitmanian intertext emerges in Graham’s choreographic writing, in her conception of Americanness, modernity, the body and gender.…”
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‘Rebecca’s Appalachian Angel’: A Cultivar of Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) with Large Leaves and Floppy White Bracts by Robert N. Trigiano, Trinity P. Hamm, Sarah L. Boggess, Margaret E. Staton

“…However, dogwood anthracnose has not been a major concern for nursery production in recent years (Fulcher et al. 2012) because of prophylactic chemical control measures, lack of conducive environments (cool, wet, and shady) for disease development in the nurseries, and the introduction of the only anthracnose resistant cultivar, ‘Appalachian Spring’ (Windham et al. 1998). Furthermore, many locations with a favorable environment for disease development now lack dogwoods. …”
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