Kathryn Tucker Windham was a
pioneering female journalist in the South. By the close of the Civil Rights
era, her hometown newspaper in Selma, Alabama, had been taken over by corporate
owners, and she sensed it was time to move on. She launched a new career as
part social worker, part roving documentarian, photographing and writing about
the people and places that fascinated her. She was one of Alabama’s best known
citizens, widely honored, yet she still kept a busy schedule of public
appearances: She continued to write, photograph, and tell stories. Putting her
worldly house in order, the nine autobiographical essays in this volume helped
tidy up the facts and folklore in Windham’s professional attic.