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Cracker : the cracker culture in Florida historyEntry/Object ID
Library.793Description
255 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm
Cracker : the cracker culture in Florida history by Dana Ste. Claire.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.
Summary: This volume, part anthology, part anthropology, part history, part folklore, celebrates Florida's rich and diverse Cracker heritage. Dana Ste.Claire and The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach deserve much praise for bringing together these vivid images of Florida's frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquite repellant, and screens. While many of these depictions of Crackers may seem negative or ambivalent to modern tastes, Ste.Claire's work reminds us that "Cracker Culture" and ways also offer positive legacies valuable for our present generation: self-reliance, self-sufficiency, honesty, and finally a simple, direct approach to people and problems. Ste.Claire is one of the few in the state who has given this often maligned group their just dues. Crackers aren't only a part of Florida history. To a great extent, they are Florida history.Collection
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Whites -- Florida -- Social life and customs., Country life -- Florida., Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida., Florida -- Social life and customs., Florida -- Rural conditions.Publication Details
Author
Ste.Claire, DanaEdition
Second editionPublisher
Museum of Arts and SciencesPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Daytona Bch, FLCall No.
F 316.23 .S74 1998ISBN
0933053134