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"Stetson Kennedy collected folklore and oral histories throughout Florida for the WPA between 1937 and 1942. The result was this classic Florida book, back in print for the first time in more than twenty years with an Afterword update and dozens of historic photographs never before published with this work. Alan Lomax said, ""I doubt very much that a better book about Florida folklife will ever be written."""

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I don't know of any book on my whole shelf that hits me any harder than Palmetto Country. It gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot. If only, and if only, all our library books could say what [Kennedy does] the jokes and songs and old ballads about voodoo and the hoodoo and the bigly winds down in your neck of the woodvine -- Woody Guthrie Folk Musician and Singer I liked Stetson Kennedy's Palmetto Country very much indeed when it first appeared, and I like it even better now that, after [more than] fifty years, it is being reprinted and he has added an admonition that if we do not take better care of Florida we are going to lose it. -- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Author of The Everglades: River of Grass

I liked Stetson Kennedy's Palmetto Country very much indeed when it first appeared, and I like it even better now that, after [more than] fifty years, it is being reprinted and he has added an admonition that if we do not take better care of Florida we are going to lose it. -- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Author of The Everglades: River of Grass

"I don't know of any book on my whole shelf that hits me any harder than Palmetto Country. It gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot. If only, and if only, all our library books could say what [Kennedy does] the jokes and songs and old ballads about voodoo and the hoodoo and the bigly winds down in your neck of the woodvine -- Woody Guthrie ""Folk Musician and Singer"" I liked Stetson Kennedy's Palmetto Country very much indeed when it first appeared, and I like it even better now that, after [more than] fifty years, it is being reprinted and he has added an admonition that if we do not take better care of Florida we are going to lose it. -- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas ""Author of The Everglades: River of Grass"""

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