June Bug's Grocery and the Cornfield Jook

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  • June Bug's Grocery and the Cornfield Jook Book Detail

  • Author : Mary Sterner Lawson
  • Release Date : 2003
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 198
  • ISBN 13 : 9780738514628
  • File Size : 48,48 MB
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June Bug's Grocery and the Cornfield Jook by Mary Sterner Lawson PDF Summary

Book Description: The vibrant South Georgia scene was pure Americana-a picturesque, old-fashioned grocery store next to a thriving jook joint in the heart of a South Albany African-American community. Originally more secluded, this nucleus of the neighborhood became a familiar sight to all Albany residents with the opening in the 1980s of a roadway that passed by the scene and across a new bridge over the nearby Flint River. The waters of the Flint proved to be much too near in 1994, when a catastrophic flood damaged beyond repair the grocery, jook, and hundreds of homes along the river. Deeply touched by that enormous community loss, Mary Sterner Lawson used her own 1987 photographs to paint a watercolor of the once-flourishing South Albany scene. She never imagined how overwhelming the public response would be when the painting was exhibited in the main lobby of a busy local hospital in 1996. A veritable flood of reminiscences came her way-tales of childhood memories, community gatherings, friendships, brotherhood, families, prostitution, moonshine, and murder. Inspired by the community members who encouraged and aided her efforts, Lawson began recording the rich recollections. June Bug's Grocery and the Cornfield Jook registers these voices of the community, the voices behind the painting.

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