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Southern Harvest
Clare Leighton (1899-1989) was a noted artist, illustrator, engraver, and author. Picking cotton, shucking corn, boiling sorghum, and harvesting tobacco are all part of the rich agricultural heritage of the South recalled by Leighton in the vignettes that make up SOUTHERN HARVEST. Originally published in 1942, the work is handsomely illustrated by more than 35 of Leighton's wood engravings .
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157 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1997
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September 11, 2014
4.5*
Between Clare Leighton, Alison Uttley, and H.E. Bates, I have had the best reading summer ever. Clare has an edge in that she writes and illustrates so beautifully.
Contents:
Cotton
Water Mills and Millers
How the Devil Came to the Reverend Hill
Corn Shucking
Old Ollie
Spring in the Carolinas
Flood
Hog Killing
Sorghum
Po' White
Mountains
Louisiana Pilgrimage
Tobacco
Saturday in Court House Square
These chapters are usually the author observing people at work, but sometimes she writes in the voice of the participants themselves. The theme is connection to the earth, to nature and each other through the rhythms and rituals of work. Obviously these are old ways that are gone now - and this book reads like a hymn to country life in the past. Most of the workers are African American or poor white folks, and Clare clearly has a deep respect for them. I'm sure this book could be considered sentimental in that only the good is written about - but since there is plenty written about the negative in other places, I took it for what it was - an artist's vision of the South.
Between Clare Leighton, Alison Uttley, and H.E. Bates, I have had the best reading summer ever. Clare has an edge in that she writes and illustrates so beautifully.
Contents:
Cotton
Water Mills and Millers
How the Devil Came to the Reverend Hill
Corn Shucking
Old Ollie
Spring in the Carolinas
Flood
Hog Killing
Sorghum
Po' White
Mountains
Louisiana Pilgrimage
Tobacco
Saturday in Court House Square
These chapters are usually the author observing people at work, but sometimes she writes in the voice of the participants themselves. The theme is connection to the earth, to nature and each other through the rhythms and rituals of work. Obviously these are old ways that are gone now - and this book reads like a hymn to country life in the past. Most of the workers are African American or poor white folks, and Clare clearly has a deep respect for them. I'm sure this book could be considered sentimental in that only the good is written about - but since there is plenty written about the negative in other places, I took it for what it was - an artist's vision of the South.
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