Kennedy, Stetson

  [img]/system/files/images/PALMETTO-COUNTRY_frontcover-rgb-96dpi.reference+view.jpg[/img] [img]/system/files/images/authorphoto-kennedy-stetson.img_assist_custom-240x244.jpg[/img]    Stetson Kennedy was head of the Florida Writers' Project unit on  folklore, oral history, and socio-ethnic studies for the Works Progress  Administration between 1937 and 1942. He traveled the cities, towns, and  rural backwoods of Florida collecting oral histories, songs, and stories  from a diverse cross-section of people. His work resulted in one of the  first volumes in the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine  Caldwell, and remains a unique and important documentation of the social  history of Florida.     “I liked Stetson Kennedy's [i]Palmetto Country[/i] very much indeed when it first appeared, and I like it even better now that, after [more than] fifty years, it is being reprinted and he has added an admonition that  if we do not take better care of Florida we are going to lose it.”

Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Author of [i]The Everglades: River of Grass[/i]

 

   “I very much doubt that a better book about Florida folklife will ever be written.”

Alan Lomax America Folklorist and Musicologist

 “I don't know of any book on my whole shelf that hits me any harder than  Palmetto Country. It gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel  for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in  body and tramped in boot. If only, and if only, all our library books  could say what [Kennedy does]—the jokes and songs and old ballads about  voodoo and the hoodoo and the bigly winds down in your neck of the  woodvine.”

  Woody Guthrie Folk Musician and singer-songwriter, [i]This Land is Your Land[/i]

 

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