Runnin' on Rims: Appalachian Profiles

by Jock Lauterer

Book by Lauterer, Jock

242 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1986

About the author

Jonathan Gregory "Jock" Lauterer was born in Bronxville, N.Y., but lived most of his life through the completion of his college education in Chapel Hill, N.C.; graduated with a double major in journalism and geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; journalist, editor, and publisher for the McDowell Express in Marion, N.C., and the Daily Courier in Forest City, N.C.; professor in the Communications Studies department at Pennsylvania State University for more than nine years; In 2000, Lauterer returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a teacher and photographer for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and the founding director of the Carolina Community Media Project.

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once upon a time, there were local newspapers with talented photojournalists and writers who captured moments in time of real people and their oral histories, and got it all down on paper. This is wonderful stuff, but probably only of particular interest to residents of western North Carolina. This is a beautiful collection of portraits and stories of mostly elderly Appalachians, one of whom I remember from my childhood. I guess all this is being done digitally on the web now (if at all), but it’s nice to know it can still sit on a bookshelf, awaiting your fingers, and the the turn of a page. So glad this exists in the world.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book! Classic Profiles!!