Images of Southern Culture Capture Rural Experience

Augusta Chronicle, The (June 09, 2005)

Author: Parish Howard< Morris News Service<

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Rural Southern culture is changing. The places and traditions that make small towns across the region unique are slowly disappearing as the unpainted clapboard buildings are torn down, mom-and-pop operations close and the fast-food frenzy of mass- produced American culture takes over.

Some call it progress. Others lament the loss. Either way, it's change, and the heritage that generations of rural Southerners know is vanishing.

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Images of Southern Culture Capture Rural Experience

For the past five years Dr. David Wharton, a professor at the Un...

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