Maryland's Vanishing Lives

by John Sherwwood, John Sherwood, John Sherwwood

Book Overview

"Wistful, beautiful, elegiac... A handsome collection of essays and photographs that celebrates the lives of pigeon racers and elevator operators, oyster packers and barrel makers, sailmakers and boat builders, fishermen and blacksmiths. A kind of 'let us praise famous men' (and women), it celebrates blue collars and skinned knuckles, the stubbornness and pride that led some to continue with trades they learned long ago, not caring that the world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801847028
• ISBN13: 9780801847028
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Poignant Portraits in a Homogenous Age

As franchises, strip malls,highways, fast food and outlets become more prevelant in America, it is refreshing and enlightening to read John Sherwood's, "Maryland's Vanishing Lives." His colorful and poignant portraits of ways of life in Maryland (a one-room schoolhouse;Tool bridge operator etc.) are a reminder of how things have been, but are quickly giving way to the mass marketing approach in our nation. Sherwood preserves the varied ways of life that are quickly going by the wayside in our impersonal age, and does so with an exquisite human touch. Bravo!