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Wooden Churches: A Celebration
from: Algonquin Books

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 726.50973
EAN: 9781565122338
ISBN: 156512233X
Label: Algonquin Books
Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 122
Publication Date: November 01, 1999
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Sales Rank: 242729
Studio: Algonquin Books

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Though usually plain, sometimes humble, wooden churches are something special. With no fancy accoutrements - the flying buttresses, the mountains of organ pipe, the marble floors, the windows of stained glass - wooden churches distinguish themselves through the people who built them, the people who preach in them, and the place they assume in the civic, moral, and spiritual life of the community.

There is something about wooden church that moves artists and writers to very personal acts of creation. Perhaps it's the grain of the wood or the flaking paint. Maybe it's the strict angles of the eaves and the way footsteps echo across the floor. Wooden Churches glows with the work of such famed photographers as Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Gordon Parks, William Christenberry, and Tom Rankin and sings in the words of Eudora Welty, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Reynolds Price, Mark Twain, Carson McCullers, Lee Smith, Anne Tyler, John Irving, and Thomas Jefferson, among many others.

The images and words follow shared lives from birth to death as they unfold between the hallowed walls of wooden churches large and small: the marriages, the picnics, the baptisms, the political meetings, the funerals, the hoedowns, and even the military strategy sessions of General U.S. Grant.

In the tradition of Algonquin's bestselling Out on the Porch, Wooden Churches takes the reader up the steps, through the doorway, and down the aisle of hundreds of American wooden churches, old and new, fancy and plain, rich and poor.

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- Nostalgic! Inspirational!
I originally bought this book because Rick Bragg wrote the introduction to it. It goes without saying that his intro alone is worth the price of the book. But I was also elated to rediscover avenues of reading to follow. Accompanying the marvelous photos are excerpts from literary icons. Doris Betts, Richard Wright, Ferroll Sams, Flannery O'Connor; they're all there and more! Could their works have been as memorable without the presense of old wooden churches as living, breathing characters? I found myself making a list of these writers that I suddenly longed to reread. This book is a must have for anyone who loves southern writing and black and white photography. But, it would make a great gift for absolutely anyone! The pictures are addicting, the texts, mesmerising! You will smile, cry, yearn for, and remember when you look at this book. Buy it!

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- Beautiful
The combination of stunning photography and memorable prose in this book makes it an excellent choice for anyone interested in churches, history, simple architecture, or words. It is a joy both to look at and to read.

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