Hale County, Alabama, Revisited
by muffy
Almost 70 years after James Agee and Walker Evans immortalized three white sharecropper families of rural Alabama in Let us now praise famous men, Hale County is again in the news.
It seems like folks have been flocking to this remote and impoverished area of western Alabama to check out the 40-odd modest dwellings for the poorest of the poor, built with soda bottles, car tires, hay bales and Chevrolet windshields. The architects are Auburn University students, working under the Rural Studio program founded by Samuel Mockbee. Proceed and be bold : Rural Studio after Samuel Mockbee chronicles the Studio's recent successes after Mockbee's death in 2001.
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