that set a nicetown. -- that set a nicetown. todid not want our piece read like a history peace and that was collaborative as well. openingested the mechanism which i love. we open with several quotes from leading works of southern history that have to do with environment and several of those quotes become subsections. we decided early on we wanted to defied up the subsections -- wanted to divide up the subsections. position the fortunate is that it is robust but did not exist as such a few decades ago. decided we would settle on fields,mes, waters, towns. we would get as much history as we could. we divided the sections, we drafted, exchange, we had bad luck with google docs because of the citations. to use the having process of doing documents, or documents, and sending them back and forth. making sure we did not work on them on the same time because we wanted the most recent. that was the logistical challenge but it was a wonderful experience. >> working with jennifer was great. the originalessay, assignment was from the grea