| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Home -- A tour -- Why -- History -- Decay -- Isolation -- The economy -- Education -- Chicken salad -- Poisoned soup -- Family -- Funerals -- Religion -- Mr. Nielsen -- Social life -- Women's clubs -- Conversation -- Race -- Politics -- Coal ash landfill, Huntley County -- Jews -- Pilgrimage |
| Summary |
"My Little Town turns the Yankee-comes-to-Dixie literary genre outside in, examining Marion, Alabama, through the eyes of someone who should never have been living there and yet found himself there for more than a decade. With a keen appreciation of its peculiarly Southern tableau, the book lovingly scrutinizes an Alabama village short chapter by short chapter, accompanied by photographer Jerry Siegel's captivating work from the Black Belt. Funeral visitations, poisoned soup luncheons, Pilgrimage hosting, supper clubs, family feuds, Obama Day parades, politics, Jews, and chicken salad recipes are all treated with a voice of singular precision and affection. Simultaneously author David Tipmore couples this fresh view of Southern small-town life with his own narrative of a worldly urban nomad who hopes to find a home in one of the most isolated areas of the United States, peculiarly defined by its racial history and regional mores. By conflating the two stories, My Little Town challenges the reader as much as the author, raising serious questions about our ability as Americans to transcend our regional identities and cultural complexities"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Tipmore, David -- Homes and haunts -- Alabama -- Marion
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City and town life -- Alabama -- Marion
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City and town life
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Homes
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Marion (Ala.) -- History
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Marion (Ala.) -- Social conditions
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C (Ala.) -- Race relations
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Marion (Ala.) -- Biography
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| Subject |
Alabama -- Marion
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020032545 |
| ISBN |
1588384349 |
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9781588384348 |
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