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Alabama Afternoons : Profiles and Conversations

Author
Hoffman, Roy, 1953-
Published
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (273 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction; Part I: The Makers; William Christenberry: Pilgrimage of the Heart; Charles Moore: Witness to Change; Bernice Sims: A Folk Artist's Stamp on History; Kathryn Tucker Windham and Charlie Lucas: Kathryn and the "Tin Man"; Part II: The Tellers; Mary Ward Brown: Black Belt Storyteller; Sena Jeter Naslund: A Story Deep Inside Her; Diane McWhorter: Taking Pictures from the Inside; Frye Gaillard: Writing His Way; Artelia Bendolph: The Girl in the Window; Eugene Sledge: "With the Old Breed"; Part III: The Journeyers; Mel Allen: "Voice of the Yankees.", Gay Talese: Made in AlabamaHowell Raines: Coming Full Circle; Winston Groom: The House That Gump Built; Tommy Tarrants and Stan Chassin: Deliver Us from Evil; Part IV: Witnesses to the Movement; Neil Davis: Tough, Sweet Voice of Reason; Vivian Malone and James Hood: The Stand In the Schoolhouse Door; George Wallace Jr.: The Loyal Son; Johnnie Carr: Sustaining the Dream; Theresa Burroughs: In Beauty's Care; Part V: Down Back Roads; Sara Hamm: Keeping the Faith; Restoring Rosenwald: The Oak Grove School; Bessie Papas: A Malbis Life; Edward Carl and Walter Bellingrath: Driving Mr. Bellingrath., and William Bolton and Herbert Henson: Visiting Old PalsScoop, Red, Moon, and Shorty: The Oak Tree Social Club; Part VI: Different Windows on Dixie; Yolande "Bebe" Betbeze: Cinderella in Charge; Alex Alvarez: Voices from the Past; Abby Fisher: "What Miss Fisher Knows About Old Home Cooking"; Part VII: Personal Sojourns; Greetings from Brooklyn, Alabama; Joe Bear: Ice Cream Man; Windows: A Son Remembers; Acknowledgments; Permissions; About the Author.
Summary
Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New York Times, Preservation, and Garden & Gun, these profiles preserve the individual stories & mdash;and the individual voices within the stories & mdash;that help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union. Hoffman recounts his personal visits with writer Mary Ward Brown in her library in Hamburg, with photographer William.
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ISBN
9780817385606 (electronic bk.)
0817385606 (electronic bk.)
9780817317393 (cloth alk. paper)
0817317392 (cloth alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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