Palmetto Country - Softcover

Kennedy, Stetson

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ISBN 10: 0813009596 ISBN 13: 9780813009599

Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida, 1989

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Reprint of the 1942 edition. The author headed the Florida Writer's Project unit on folklore, oral history, and social ethnic studies for the Works Progress Administration. This is his wide-ranging social history of Florida and the deep South up to the eve of WWII. No bibliography. Published by Florida A&M U. Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Stetson Kennedy was head of the Florida Writers' Project unit on folklore, oral history, and socio-ethnic studies for the Works Progress Administration between 1937 and 1942. He traveled the cities, towns, and rural backwoods of Florida collecting oral histories, songs, and stories from a diverse cross-section of people. His work resulted in one of the first volumes in the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell, and remains a unique and important documentation of the social history of Florida.

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Remains one of the best books ever written about Florida. -- St. Petersburg Times, 9/3/2005

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