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“If a fellow farms hard enough to make something out of it, it’s got to be the hardest work a man’s ever done.” — Lloyd Rigsby
Acclaimed photographer and author Tim Barnwell grew up observing the traditional ways of rural farm families in western North Carolina. Church dinners-on-the grounds, country stores and mule-drawn plows were still part of daily life in the 1950s and 1960s.
By the late 1970s, Barnwell realized this traditional way of life was fading away as fast as farms were declining in number. He focused his lens on documenting this disappearing lifestyle for the next quarter century. His timeless images appear in On Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs, opening Friday, April 3, at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. On view through Oct. 4, the traveling exhibit is based on Barnwell’s book of the same title (W.W. Norton, 2007). Admission is free.
via NC Cultural Resources Newsroom » On Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs.
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