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A Chattahoochee Album: Images of Traditional People and Folsky Places Around the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley
Fred C. Fussell
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Description for A Chattahoochee Album: Images of Traditional People and Folsky Places Around the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley
Paperback. This photojournal looks at the traditional folkways and cultural heritage of one of the American South's most distinctive regions. It looks at the places and the people that perpetuate the music, the stories, and the crafts indigenous to the region. Num Pages: 150 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 1KBBSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 435.
Immortalized in Sidney Lanier's poetry, the Chattahoochee River forms in the hill country of northwest Georgia, near Brasstown Bald, and flows southward to become a mighty southern river before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola, Florida. For 173 miles of its mid-length it forms the border between Alabama and Georgia, draining a watershed of 877,000 square miles and 18 counties between the two states. As such, the lower Chattahoochee River Valley has been termed the geographical center of the Deep South. Fred Fussell has traveled and explored this area for more than 25 years in his capacities ... Read more
Immortalized in Sidney Lanier's poetry, the Chattahoochee River forms in the hill country of northwest Georgia, near Brasstown Bald, and flows southward to become a mighty southern river before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola, Florida. For 173 miles of its mid-length it forms the border between Alabama and Georgia, draining a watershed of 877,000 square miles and 18 counties between the two states. As such, the lower Chattahoochee River Valley has been termed the geographical center of the Deep South. Fred Fussell has traveled and explored this area for more than 25 years in his capacities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Alabama Press Alabama
Number of pages
150
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780945477143
SKU
KEX0212530
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99-2
About Fred C. Fussell
Fred C. Fussell is an independent folklorist and writer currently working on A Guidebook to the Traditional Music of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Douglas C. Purcell is Executive Director of the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
Reviews for A Chattahoochee Album: Images of Traditional People and Folsky Places Around the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley
The inhabitants of this place believe themselves to be the inheritors and perpetuators of a significant culture which sustained their parents and grandparents, and... will sustain their children and grandchildren as well.... They have a sense of their history, fostered by family and community tradition, and bolstered by the written word. - Billy Winn, Editorial Page Editor of the Columbus ... Read more