Maryland's Vanishing Lives

by John Sherwwood, John Sherwood, John Sherwwood

Book Overview

For more than two years, John Sherwood roamed Maryland's small towns and city neighborhoods, traveled Appalachian back roads, and sailed the Chesapeake looking for people whose work or way of life recalled the state's rich and varied tradition. Maryland's Vanishing Lives is his vivid account of the people he met on those journeys. Working in a country store or an old-time movie house, on a small tobacco farm or a weathered skipjack, Sherwood's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801852498
• ISBN13: 9780801852497
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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!