South Carolina

Description

The Federal Writers Project creates an image of South Carolina of years past

All of us, at one time or another, have had a strong desire to be able to get into a time machine and be transported magically to an earlier place and time. Science has not yet produced for us such a time machine, but the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a division of the Works Progress Administration, did produce for prosperity guides to all of the old 48 states. Using talented local researchers and writers the FWP created an image of America fifty plus years ago.

A reprint of the original, South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State is divided into three sections: 19 essays on a variety of topics ranging from history to cookery; detailed descriptions of the 11 towns in the state that had populations of more than 10,000; and 21 remarkably detailed guided tours to all sections of the state. In addition to the original chapters, there are two appendices—updated highway numbers for each tour and a guide to getting off the present Interstate Highway System and picking up the guided tours.

South Carolina's Guide is very much a product of its times. The essays and tours mince no words in describing the state's poverty or the reality of a world in which class and race played major roles. For those who have studied and taught South Carolina history, the old Guide has been an indispensable reference work. Parts of it may be dated to some jaded modern eyes; some phrases may be jarring to the post-1954 generation. However, the original South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State was what its cover claimed it to be. It accurately described the state as it was—not as romantics wanted it to be.

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Travel writing
• State
• General officer
• History of the Americas
• General
• United States
• Local

Informations

• Publié par: University of South Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 24 février 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643364308
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 63 Mo

Extrait

Copyright 1941 by Burnet R. Maybank, Governor of South Carolina Copyright © University of South Carolina, 1988

Cloth and paperback editions published by the University of South Carolina Press, 1988 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2023

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Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov

ISBN 978-0-87249-603-3 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-64336-430-8 (ebook)

Front cover illustration:“Southern Industrial Tapestry” by Auriel Bessemer, 1938. U.S. Post OfIce, Winnsboro, S.C. Photograph by Will Barnes from the South Carolina State Museum collection, “New Deal Art in South Carolina,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.