Gullies of My People: An Excavation of Landscape and Family

by John Lane

While scouting sites for geology field trips, poet and naturalist John Lane encountered deep gullies created between the Civil War and the 1930s contributed to by his mother's tenant farming family and their rural neighbors in Piedmont South Carolina. This brush with the poor farming practices of the past leads Lane into an exploration of his own family's complicated history and of the larger environmental forces that have shaped the region where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820365440
• ISBN13: 9780820365442
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"