In Search of Small-Town America: Volume 1
In Search of Small-Town America: Volume 1
Introduction. New Mexico and Arizona
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- 173 Pages
- 201 Photographs
- 15,400 Words approx.
- 31.2 MB PDF Download
Cover: Cody – Wyoming. 2006
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Introduction: Follow the Journey! – A table of contents. A broad introduction to the premise for the work, and detailed narrative, regarding the planning and logistics for the ‘Fifty-Fifty Project’.
Chapter 1 – New Mexico: Leaving Albuquerque. The first day to the fifteenth, getting the hang of life-on-the-road in a motorhome. A giant school bus depot, and churches for every religious persuasion. 'Sonic Burgers', the White Sands Missile Range, and the oddly named town of 'Truth or Consequences'.
Chapter 2 – Arizona: The 'Shady Dell Park’, and the historic mining town of Bisbee. Gunfights at the OK Corral, all too typical small-town demise in ‘Mammoth’, scrap-yards and trailer-homes. Remnants of ‘Old Route 66’, a ferocious Friday night-out, Indian trinkets, and an exhilarating flight over the Grand Canyon.
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What Readers are Saying…
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Wayne Jackman
Read moreThe work is a unique and innovative mix of superb photographs, and an eloquent but quirky, daily diary – as the author voyages on a daunting solo trip through every State in America – in one year!
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Susan Toft
Read moreThis is unlike anything I've ever read before, with an intriguing combination of pictures and prose, interwoven in such a perceptive, and imaginative way. This is 'Click-Lit' – and I'm coining the phrase.
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Michael Hearn
Read moreI was captivated by this work, and the ambitious intention, but the methodical way in which the author has carried it out in such wonderful detail of words and images, is nothing short of astonishing.
His aim is to discover and document the small town ethos that was once all pervasive in this wonderful Country, but is now sadly, in slow but steady decline. It needed to be documented. And this is it! Add to this mix some fascinating facts, and often biting observations, and you have a gripping account of one man's quest to record the hidden and fading treasures that constitute 'Small-Town America'. The sole drawback is – America has only fifty States. I wanted more.
Wayne Jackman – Award-winning scriptwriter and author
This is 'Click-Lit' – and I'm coining the phrase.
I entered a truly special world when I opened this book. It felt that I travelled every mile, along with the author. The triumphant highs, the stoic lows – joy, tears and laughter. Absolutely beautiful photography, amusing but insightful words, and with a generous helping of social history thrown in. I have been educated and very thoroughly entertained.
Susan Toft – Retired Publican and consummate reader
The reader will be struck by how well the diary entries are linked with the photographs, with either leading the eye to the other. As with every honest diarist, from Pepys onward – his disappointments, his successes, the expletives, the arguments – and so we read on, to find out 'what happened next'. And not only are we treated to a rich and intelligent narrative, and a collection of thought-provoking pictures, we are also learning something about the Country, as the journey progresses.
Michael Hearn – Retired Librarian and book collector