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Mark Souther

@marksouther.bsky.social

Cleveland-based urban, public, & digital historian | author of New Orleans on Parade, Believing in Cleveland, Sandhill Cities | CLE Historical, Green Book CLE | trumpeter @ CLE Repertory Orchestra, Cleveland Winds, Euclid Sym Orch | marksouther.org

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Happy to see my Sandhill Cities book displayed at the Urban History Association conference. For those interested in smaller and midsized cities and/or the modern US South, check it out at the Scholars’ Choice table in the book exhibit. #UHA25LA @lsupress.bsky.social

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ahh, the first lake effect snow warning of the season! Winter is paying Cleveland an early visit.

Weather radar showing snowfall and warning area in NE Ohio

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

For those in #Cleveland, you can see me play with the Cleveland Winds this Sunday, Nov. 17. Why is there a moth on this poster, you ask? Because our portion of this joint concert with CSU Wind Ensemble opens with Viet Cuong’s “Moth.” Concert info: facebook.com/events/s/csu...

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

I’m pleased to share that my new book, Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, is in press for fall 2025 publication in LSU Press’s Making the Modern South series edited by David Goldfield. #lsupress #southernhistory #urbanhistory @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Title page text: SANDHILL CITIES: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia; J. Mark Souther

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations / x
Acknowledgments / x

Introduction / X
Chapter 1 The Heart of Georgia / XX
Chapter 2 The Winter Capital of America / XX
Chapter 3 Metropolis of the Chattahoochee Valley / XX
Chapter 4 Planning “The South’s Most Progressive City” / XX
Chapter 5 What Augusta Builds, Builds Augusta / XXX
Chapter 6 Building the Future from Our Past / XXX
Epilogue ~ Where Soul Lives / XXX

Notes / XXX
Bibliography / XXX
Index / XXX

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Today at 2pm, a new Ohio historical marker will be dedicated for Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan’s recreational club (1924-1940s) for African Americans in Wakeman, Ohio.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

It’s been a busy musical spring—6 band and orchestra concerts in the past 12 weeks. One more to go in 8 days.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Arrived in Erie for the Keystone DH conference at Penn State Erie. Here are some views of the harbor looking toward downtown in one direction and Presque Isle on the other. #eriepa #presqueisle #lakeerie #keystonedh24

Downtown skyline beyond harbor and marina

Looking across Presque Isle Bay toward Presque Isle with open waters of Lake Erie beyond

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

An update on our ongoing work on the Green Book Cleveland project csudigitalhumanities.org/2023/12/prog...

1939 photo of employees and patrons at the tavern inside the Ritz Plaza (formerly Garden City) Hotel in Akron, from Opie Evans Collection, University of Akron Archives & Special Collections

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Greetings from Cleveland

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