St. Tammany Parish

Kirjan St. Tammany Parish (1981) on kirjoittanut Walker Percy. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Pelican Publishing Co. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 320 sivua ja se on nidottu.

A good local history is an excellent andagreeable thing. It pleases on two counts. It satisfies the curiosity of theinhabitants of a region, whether newcomers or old settlers, especially if noadequate history had existed before. It dispels myths, corrects old wives'tales. And, if the history is first-rate, it goes beyond a factual account ofpersons and places, the particularities of a region, and shows the significanceof these human happenings in a larger scheme of things, in this case theemergence of a new nation. Ellis's history succeeds on both counts. It is a delightful andauthoritative account of lore which not even St. Tammanyites may have heard of. Did you know, for example, that there was once a flourishing wine industry inSt. Tammany Parish? That local vineyards produced excellent red and whitewines, the red from Concord grapes, the white from Herbemont? Did you know thatin 1891 a rice crop of 50,000 barrels was harvested, half the entire output ofSouth Carolina? . . . Ellis has rendered this pleasant and authoritative history in a graceful andlively style and with a genuine affection for the people he writes about. Walker PercyFrom the Foreword