Red Dirt Memories

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-62288-540-4
Verlag: Stephen F. Austin State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Red Dirt Memories is a tribute to a way of life that has almost disappeared as quickly as it began, taking you beyond pastures dotted with herds of cattle, past the hatchery, the feed mill, and then to the foot of Swift Hill, where a red dirt road winds down then up again for two miles. Then as now, a car raises a cloud of red dust to signal a visitor, where only a clearing is left of the pine shack it once held, with the smokehouse and the outhouse beyond long decayed and torn down. Wild honeysuckle has taken over the chimney remnants, and all the ghosts simply wait for the right moment to conjure their old memories in this timeless collection that reminds us of our similarities, rather than the differences that divide us.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jerry Permenter is a native of East Texas and spent his early years in the small community of Swift, in Nacogdoches County. A health care advocate for the majority of his life, he founded the East Texas AIDS Project in 1989, and in 2016, he founded the first Health Equity Clinic in San Antonio, Texas. Permenter lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Antonio, Texas.