When the South Was Southern

by Andrew Grissom and Michael Grissom

Book Overview

Michael Andrew Grissom has gathered what may be for many Americans the first glimpse into the South's former way of life. His new book, When the South Was Southern, the culmination of his trilogy on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565540921
• ISBN13: 9781565540927
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Save little views from the South, before today's haste make waste.

Printed on the best of paper, the rare photographs present personal views of important events and places. Without these photographs or family members to embellish the stories, another generation will soon lose impressions of the South when it was southern. Thank you.

A SOUTHERN VIEW

The historic South is well preserved and eloquently presented in this final volume of a trilogy that began with "Southern By The Grace Of God." This volume is a treasure of over 500 photographs, pictures of Southerners, both young and old, at work, at home, and at play. In addition, there are unforgettable scenes of the South, such as Spanish Moss shrouding live oak trees in South Carolina, the faces of young men in the Southern army shortly before the battle at Manassas Junction, and the old City Hall in Birmingham, Alabama, being destroyed by fire. Part One is devoted to people of the area while Part Two is primarily a postcard gallery of once proud buildings. The final section is made up of letters and accounts.

Excellent. Outstanding old photos.

A real keeper, if for nothing else but the old photos. Really outstanding. The Southern ladies diary entries in Part Three were truly heart-wrenching.

THE BEST LOOK AT THE TRUE SOUTH !!!!!!!

Once again, Michael Andrew Grissom has ridden back into time and captured the TRUE South, not the "Sun Belt", but The South. Grissom shows what the South was like during and after the War of Northern Aggression. This book transposes the reader back to the glory days of the South, long before Wal-Mart Supercenters, when one could hear laughter on the levee, steamboat around the bend. The reader can almost smell the blooming magnolias and the warm Southern breeze blowing on the front porch. Grissom atests to the fact that when you speak of the north, the east, the west, you speak of a direction, but when you speak of the SOUTH, you speak of a place, a people, a culture that is the greatest on the face of the earth. This book should leave any southerner agasp for quite a long time. This book also would be perfect for children, to help them expand there horizons from Barney, Nintendo, and Ninja Turtles, to something worthwhile. GOD SAVE THE SOUTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!