Red Hills and Cotton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Hills and Cotton write by Ben Robertson. This book was released on 1960. Red Hills and Cotton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A classic in the literature of nostalgia. An appreciation for the Piedmont life and culture.
Red Hills and Cotton
Red Hills and Cotton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Hills and Cotton write by Ben Robertson. This book was released on 2021-03-29. Red Hills and Cotton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Red Hills and Cotton is suffused with Ben Robertson's deep affection for his native Upcountry South Carolina. An internationally known and respected journalist, Robertson had a knack for finding the interesting and exotic in seemingly humble or ordinary folk and a keen eye for human interest stories. His power of description and disarmingly straightforward narrative were the hallmarks of his writing. A loyal Southern son, Robertson cherished what he judged to be the South's best traditions: personal independence and responsibility, the rejection of crass materialism, a deep piety, and a love of freedom. He repeatedly lamented the region's many shortcomings: poverty, racial hierarchy, political impotence, lack of inttellectual curiosity, and its tendency to blame all of its twentieth-century problems on the defeat of the Confederacy. An informative and entertaining new introduction by Lacy K. Ford, Jr., associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina, provides fascinating new facts about Robertson's life and recasts his achievements in Red Hills and Cotton as social commentary. Ford captures the essence of Robertson's restless and questioning, but unfailingly Southern, spirit.
Red Hills and Cotton
Red Hills and Cotton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Hills and Cotton write by Ben Robertson. This book was released on 1949. Red Hills and Cotton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ben Robertson
Ben Robertson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ben Robertson write by Jodie Peeler. This book was released on 2019-10-30. Ben Robertson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author, Jodie Peeler tells the story of a man consumed with a need to see the world but whose heart never really left home. Drawing heavily on Robertson's writings and personal papers, Peeler describes his active career as a journalist, which took him to Hawaii, Australia, Europe, Java, New York, and Washington, D.C. The early years of Robertson's career were spent as a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune. After several years as a freelance writer, he became a World War II correspondent covering England for the New York newspaper PM. While Robertson's wartime dispatches drew attention and praise, they represented but one aspect of the man's wide-ranging works and career, for the Ben Robertson who witnessed destruction and heroism in the fires of London was also a proud son of South Carolina. In addition to his work as a journalist. Robertson wrote three books. Travelers' Rest, a fictionalized account of his ancestors' settling in South Carolina, ruffled southern feathers. In I Saw England he presents a firsthand account of the Battle of Britain and advocates for the United States to intervene in World War II. His heartfelt memoir, Red Hills and Cotton, which recalls his boyhood days in Pickens County and calls for the South to look to the future, became a southern classic. In 1943, while en route to his new job as London bureau chief for the New York Herald-Tribune, Robertson lost his life in a plane crash. Throughout his decidedly brief but adventurous life, Robertson never stopped being what one friend described as "a sentimental South Carolinian who carried his dreams on the tip of his tongue." And over time he evolved into a progressive voice calling on the South to reevaluate its attitudes on race and economics. This is the story of that proud South Carolinian, from the dreams that propelled him around the world to the sentiment that always called him home.
The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation
The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation write by Robert L Crawford. This book was released on 2012-10-21. The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Red Hills region is an idyllic setting filled with longleaf pines that stretches from Tallahassee, Florida, to Thomasville, Georgia. At its heart lies Tall Timbers, a former hunting plantation. In 1919, sportsman Henry L. Beadel purchased the Red Hills plantation to be used for quail hunting. As was the tradition, he conducted prescribed burnings after every hunting season in order to clear out the thick brush to make it more appealing to the nesting birds. After the U.S. Forest Service outlawed the practice in the 1920s, condemning it as harmful for the forest and its wildlife, the quail population diminished dramatically. Astonished by this loss and encouraged by his naturalist friend Herbert L. Stoddard, Beadel set his sights on conserving the land in order to study the effects of prescribed burnings on wildlife. Upon his death in 1958, Beadel donated the entire Tall Timbers estate to be used as an ecological research station. The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation traces Beadel’s evolution from sportsman and naturalist to conservationist. Complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished, rare vintage photographs, it follows the transformation of the plantation into what its founders envisioned--a long-term plot study station, independent of government or academic funding and control.
