An edition of Connecticut Valley Vernacular (2002)
Connecticut Valley Vernacular
The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields
By James F. O'Gorman
Publish Date
July 2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Language
eng
Pages
144
Description:
"James F. O'Gorman reads through oral histories, newspaper reports, and the terse factual writing of agricultural diaries to bring to life the risks and rewards of living close to the seasons, at the mercy of rainfall and sunshine. He has collected an array of vintage and newly commissioned photos of the work of growing tobacco, from de facto portraits of anonymous laborers to images of the sheds themselves, with all their ventilating doors open, welcoming the air. In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--BOOK JACKET.