In Search of Small-Town America: Volume 16
In Search of Small-Town America: Volume 16
Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma
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- 223 Pages
- 250 Photographs
- 26,000 Words approx.
- 100.1 MB PDF Download
Cover: Montgomery – Louisiana. 2007
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Content
Chapter 45 - Louisiana: Further evidence of Katrina's ferocity, a mission to find the ‘Bar that never closed’, good-time girls, and the French influence. A kooky small-town Mayor, Friday night dancing, and bail-bonds.
Chapter 46 - Texas: First-rate home-style hospitality, and a sexed-up black cat. Dealey Plaza, and Bruce. ‘Everything’s bigger’, and a bugger of a dust-storm. The ailing Avalon Theatre, and a potted, small-town history.
Chapter 47 - Oklahoma: The foremost ‘Route 66 Museum’, The Grapes of Wrath, and lunatic, musical rednecks. The big round red barn, and a cross-cultural shotgun wedding. Drive-in movie murals, the pipeline crossroads of the world – and finally – the computer says 'No'.
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Digital Downloads
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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