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  • Row Upon Row

    Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry

    by Dale Rosengarten, McKissick Museum, Jane Przybysz ...
    An in-depth, illustrated history of South Carolina's Lowcountry basketsCoiled grass baskets are icons of Gullah culture. From their roots in Africa, through their evolution on Lowcountry rice plantations, to their modern appreciation as art objects sought by collectors and tourists, these vessels are carriers of African American history and the African-inspired culture that took hold along the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Words and Wares of David Drake

    Revisiting "I Made This Jar" and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery

    Edited by Jill Beute Koverman, Jane Przybysz ...
    A celebration of the remarkable poem vessels of Dave the PotterDavid Drake, who often signed his work simply as "Dave," was an enslaved potter who lived and worked in Edgefield District, South Carolina. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots. His practice was not only to add his name and a date but also to embellish ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Hidden History of Henderson County, North Carolina

    by Terry Ruscin ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Join author and historian Terry Ruscin as he reveals Henderson County's forgotten yet colorful history complete with its own cast of characters and historic landmarks. Who composed a blockbuster opera a few miles from downtown Hendersonville? Who were the record-setting McCrary twins, and why were they famous? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume of obscured history. ... Read more

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  • The American Chestnut

    An Environmental History

    by Donald Edward Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural distribution of the American chestnut extended across more than four hundred thousand square miles of territory—an area stretching from eastern Maine to southeast Louisiana—stands of the trees could also be found in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Great and Noble Jar

    Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina

    by Cinda K. Baldwin ...
    In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K. Baldwin offers the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and traces the ways in which a rich regional tradition emerged from a unique cultural source.As Baldwin notes, South Carolina's old legislative district of Edgefield (an area now comprising Edgefield, Aiken, and Greenwood counties) has long been recognized as the place of origin for an ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Roots of a Region

    Southern Folk Culture

    by John A. Burrison ...
    Roots of a Region reveals the importance of folk traditions in shaping and expressing the American South. This overview covers the entire region and all forms of ex-pression-oral, musical, customary, and material.The author establishes how folklore pervades and reflects the region\'s economics, history (espe-cially the Civil War), race rela-tions, religion, and politics. He follows with a catalog ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Measure of the Earth

    The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets

    by Nicholas R. Bell ...
    A Measure of the Earth provides an unparalleled window into an overlooked corner of recent American history: the traditional basketry revival of the past fifty years. Steve Cole and Martha Ware amassed a remarkable collection using the most stringent guidelines: baskets made from undyed domestic materials that have been harvested by the maker. An essay by Nicholas Bell details the long-standing ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 23: Folk Art

    Edited by Carol Crown, Cheryl Rivers, Charles Reagan Wilson ...
    Series Book 23 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Catawba Indian Nation of the Carolinas

    by Thomas Blumer ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Catawba Indians are aboriginal to South Carolina, and their pottery tradition may be traced to 2,400 B.C. When Hernando de Soto visited the Catawba Nation (then Cofitachique) in 1540, he found a sophisticated Mississippian Culture. After the founding of Charleston in 1670, the Catawba population declined. Throughout subsequent demographic stress, the Catawba supported themselves by making and ... Read more

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  • New Philadelphia

    An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland

    by Paul Shackel ...
    New Philadelphia, Illinois, was founded in 1836 by Frank McWorter, a Kentucky slave who purchased his own freedom and then acquired land on the prairie for establishing a new—and integrated—community. McWorter sold property to other freed slaves and to whites, and used the proceeds to buy his family out of slavery. The town population reached 160, but declined when the railroad bypassed it. By ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Georgia Peach

    Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South

    by William Thomas Okie ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia's most visible symbol. Yet Prunus persica itself is surprisingly rare in Georgia, and it has never been central to the southern agricultural economy. Why, then, have southerners - and Georgians in particular - clung to the fruit? The ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • In Small Things Forgotten

    An Archaeology of Early American Life

    by James Deetz ...
    A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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