Palmetto Country - Softcover

Kennedy, Stetson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886104387 ISBN 13: 9781886104389

Publisher: Florida Historical Society Press, 2009

Synopsis

Stetson Kennedy collected folklore and oral histories throughout Florida for the WPA between 1937 and 1942. The result was this classic Florida book, back in print for the first time in more than twenty years with an Afterword update and dozens of historic photographs never before published with this work. Alan Lomax said, "I doubt very much that a better book about Florida folklife will ever be written."

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Product Description:

Title: Palmetto Country <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: StetsonKennedy <>Publisher: FloridaHistoricalSocietyPress

Review:

I don't know of any book on my whole shelf that hits me any harder than Palmetto Country. It gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot. If only, and if only, all our library books could say what [Kennedy does] the jokes and songs and old ballads about voodoo and the hoodoo and the bigly winds down in your neck of the woodvine -- Woody Guthrie "Folk Musician and Singer"

I liked Stetson Kennedy's Palmetto Country very much indeed when it first appeared, and I like it even better now that, after [more than] fifty years, it is being reprinted and he has added an admonition that if we do not take better care of Florida we are going to lose it. -- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas "Author of The Everglades: River of Grass"

About this edition

• Publisher: Florida Historical Society Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1886104387
• ISBN 13: 9781886104389
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 367