...In the 1991 book "Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M. and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia," Rodger Lyle Brown wrote that Pierson and her husband rented the house on a dairy farm for $15 a month after moving to Athens in 1973...

...Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South (University Press of Mississippi, $17, paperback). Rodger Lyle Brown, while doing his doctoral work at Emory University in Atlanta, decided to weave his journeys to various Southern...