Document Type
Poem
Publication Date
2013
Department
English
Language
English
Publication Title
Hawaii Review
Abstract
The Mississippi writer Eudora Welty began her career as a "junior publicity agent" for the Works Progress Administration, one of Roosevelt's "alphabet agencies." She roamed the Mississippi countryside and recorded the lives of the rural poor in the 1930s with her Rolleiflex camara. One of the extraordinary scenes in a series of haunting photographs, "The Tomato Packers' Recess" pictures a packer playing guitar, surrounded by other workers standing and sitting on crates, all singing.
Recommended Citation
Johnston, Carol Ann. "The Tomato Packers’ Recess." Hawaii Review 79 (2013): 183-184.
Comments
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