An irreplaceable collection of photographs that documents ways of living off the land that once were common across the entire South.
Larry Jene Fisher (1902-1956) has been called "the Renaissance man of East Texas." He worked as an aviator, musician, photographer, playwright, filmmaker, and passionate researcher. He lived in Saratoga, Texas, while making these photographs.
Thad Sitton is an award-winning historian who specializes in life in the Texas countryside before World War II.
C. E. Hunt is a writer and is active in conserving the natural and cultural heritage of Texas.
"Larry Jene Fisher's pictures are beautiful and insightful records of a time that, as Sitton points out, is the end of a time... For which reason, these pictures and Sitton and Hunt's commentaries are priceless reminders of a piece of history, where some of us came from, and what we were and how we lived... This is a jewel of a book." F. E. Abernethy, Executive Secretary and Editor (1971-2004), Texas Folklore Society, and author of Tales from the Big Thicket
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