Sodom Laurel Album

Name: Sodom Laurel Album
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ISBN: 9780807827420

ISBN-10: 0807827428

ISBN-13: 9780807827420

Edition: 2002

Authors: Rob Amberg

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When photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, surrounded by close kin, tobacco fields, and the rugged wilderness of the southern Appalachians.Sodom Laurel Albumtraces the growing relationship between Norton and Amberg across the next two decades, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and tobacco and by the gatherings of family and friends for conversation, storytelling, and music. Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg's own candid journals,…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/4/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Rob Amberg is an award-winning photographer and writer who does assignment work for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and publications. He lives in Madison County, North Carolina. Dellie Chandler Norton (1898-1993) was a much-loved storyteller and ballad singer whose songs were recorded by Alan Lomax and John Cohen. In 1990, she received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award.