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Common Threads: Photographs and Stories From The South (no)

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If you appreciate the art of true storytelling, this book is for you. If you love your Southern heritage, or just love the South in general, this book is for you. If you love photography, history, family, and 'the good old days'... This book is for you!

Chip Cooper lures us in with his beautiful photography everywhere in the South. Some of his photo's are of old places that many of us never saw in their hay-day, and many of us will never know. Somehow, Kathryn Tucker Windham's stories help us fill in the gaps, and we can almost imagine the photographs of old places coming to life in the same way it would have looked 80 to 100 years ago.

On one page, a beautiful photograph that we can't take our eyes off of for a very long time. On the next, a story that we can't bear to be distracted from, even for a second. These simple yet highly fulfilling, and heartwarming tales of her childhood let us imagine as if we are in a time that many of us will never, ever see. Every story will make you smile, and if you are a Southerner, feel pride at the special ties and traditions that Southerners had, and will always, have.

Chip Cooper's photographs serve as the grand backdrop to these stories. A reminder that heritage and history are extremely important, even the smallest every-day parts of it. I strongly recommend this book to everyone. It is enlightening, uplifting, heartwarming, and a reminder to stop and smell the roses... Appreciate the simple things in life, and remember that those we love are the most important treasures of all.