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Georgia Market Bulletin

From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Length: 28:59

A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper. Read the full description.

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Playing: Georgia Market Bulletin
From: Helen Borten

Default-piece-image-2 Danny Ledford tends his peacocks after a full day as a cabinet maker. Larry Glover raises cattle and is an engineer for Lockheed. Teacher Sherry Haney and her husband, a diesal mechanic, aren't finished with work until they clear the kudzu and feed the hogs. On 4 acres or 400, young people in Georgia are finding ways to keep the family farm alive. The classified ads of an 85-year-old farmers'newspaper take us back in time, to the reminscences of Buford Carey, a sharecropper who remembers cutting wheat by hand, and forward into the hearts and minds of people with a passion for the land. Fainting goats. Booming ostriches. Scuppernongs and muscadines, widow's tears and angel's trumpet--for this producer, it was a kind of mysterious poetry, for some 270,000 subscribers, the Georgia Market Bulletin is a lifeline to a vanishing institution.

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Danny Ledford tends his peacocks after a full day as a cabinet maker. Larry Glover raises cattle and is an engineer for Lockheed. Teacher Sherry Haney and her husband, a diesal mechanic, aren't finished with work until they clear the kudzu and feed the hogs. On 4 acres or 400, young people in Georgia are finding ways to keep the family farm alive. The classified ads of an 85-year-old farmers'newspaper take us back in time, to the reminscences of Buford Carey, a sharecropper who remembers cutting wheat by hand, and forward into the hearts and minds of people with a passion for the land. Fainting goats. Booming ostriches. Scuppernongs and muscadines, widow's tears and angel's trumpet--for this producer, it was a kind of mysterious poetry, for some 270,000 subscribers, the Georgia Market Bulletin is a lifeline to a vanishing institution.