352 pages, 6 x 9
Published on behalf of the Northwest Florida Water Management District
Paperback
Release Date:07 Oct 2007
ISBN:9780813032122
Voices of the Apalachicola
By FAITH EIDSE
SERIES:
Florida History and Culture
University Press of Florida
. is a collection of oral histories from more than thirty individuals who have lived out their entire lives in this region, including the last steamboat pilot on the river system, sharecroppers who escaped servitude, turpentine workers in Tate's Hell, sawyers of "old-as-Christ" cypress, beekeepers working the last large tupelo stand, and a Creek chief descended from a 200-year unbroken line of chiefs.