Books like Rough Weather Makes Good Timber Carolinians Recall

#1

The Tropic of Cracker

Al Burt

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#2

High Cotton Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta

Gerard Helferich

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#3

Salvation on Sand Mountain Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Dennis Covington

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#4

The Quiet Zone Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

Stephen Kurczy

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#5

Lost Plantation The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Marc R. Matrana

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#6

Currituck as it Used to be

Travis Morris

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#7

Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams

Canter Brown

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#8

Ava’s Man

Rick Bragg

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#9

Tales of a River Rat Adventures Along the Wild Mississippi

Kenny Salwey

Themes: Rural • Ecosystems & Habitats • Customs & Traditions

#10

As a Farm Woman Thinks Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890-1960

Nellie Witt Spikes

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#11

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Janisse Ray

Themes: Forests & Rainforests • Ecosystems & Habitats • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#12

The Land Remembers The Story of a Farm and Its People

Ben Logan

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#13

Great Lonely Places of the Texas Plains

Walter McDonald

Themes: Rural • Ecosystems & Habitats • State & Local

#14

We are Each Other’s Harvest Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

Natalie Baszile

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#15

The Lumber Boom of Coastal South Carolina Nineteenth-century Shipbuilding and the Devastation of Lowcountry Virgin Forests

Robert McAlister

Themes: Forests & Rainforests • Ecosystems & Habitats • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#16

Oak and Ash and Thorn The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain

Peter Fiennes

Themes: Forests & Rainforests • Rural • Ecosystems & Habitats

#17

Deep South Four Seasons on Back Roads

Paul Theroux

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#18

The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Ken Wells

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#19

Sweet Tea, Fried Chicken, and Lazy Dogs Reflections on North Carolina Life

Bill Thompson

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#20

Old Country Stores of New Hampshire

Bruce D. Heald

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#21

The Roots of Southern Populism Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

Steven Hahn

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#22

What You are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Elizabeth Catte

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#23

Onions in the Stew

Betty MacDonald

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#24

Praying for Sheetrock A Work of Nonfiction

Melissa Fay Greene

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local