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9780826322845 Academic Inspection Copy

Pie Town Woman

The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader
  • ISBN-13: 9780826322845
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By Joan Myers
  • Price: AUD $57.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2001
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biography: general [BG]
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Pie Town, New Mexico, was immortalised in 1940 in the photographs of Russell Lee, who documented life in the high, dry farming community as part of the Farm Security Administration's New Deal survey of American life. This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Lee. Doris Caudill lived on a homestead with her husband and daughter, who was six years old when Lee made his famous photographs, many of which show Doris planting her garden, canning vegetables, and milking cows. Now, more than sixty years later, Joan Myers, herself a distinguished photographer, introduces us to the woman behind the pictures.
Joan Myers
. . . a remarkable, often moving account that combines one womans nostalgic recollections of uncommonly hard times, and insightful analysis of Lees photographic legacy, and family snapshots. ." . . highly visual book. . illiminateYs? both the stark reality and the compelling beauty of Plains ruins. . . Joan Meyers uses photographs, letters, interviews and determined sleuthing to richly detail the brimming life such places contained." ""Pie Town Woman" describes the back-breaking manual labor of subsistence agriculture and the drudgery of housekeeping." "Myers has given us an invaluable glimpse into the history of a small community that has become almost a ghost town." "The reader is not only engaged by the photos and absorbed by Myers's account of one spunky woman's perspective on homesteading in New Mexico- but is also engrossed by Myers's thought-provoking questions." YMyers? . . . is a thoughtful writer whose prose seems effortless and transparent . . . and makes a whole community of individuals come to life in a real page-turner. Myers has done an admirable job in telling Doris story, and focusing on an often overlooked region. ." . . a remarkable, often moving account that combines one woman's nostalgic recollections of uncommonly hard times, and insightful analysis of Lee's photographic legacy, and family snapshots."
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