Alabama featured in Times story

Take a look at this story from the Friday "Escapes" section of The New York Times. It highlights the area of middle western Alabama where famed Depression-era photographer Walker Evans took memorable photos in 1936.

"Evans is best known for his photographs for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” which chronicled rural poverty in the Depression. The book was written by James Agee, who along with Evans lived with three sharecropping families for a month not far from Greensboro in Hale County. It was published in 1941 by Houghton Mifflin and, in time, garnered praise from social critics as well as the ire of some who said it portrayed Southerners as backward and ignorant."

We travelled through this part of Alabama a few weeks ago and writer Laura Holsen's beautiful writing captures the area perfectly.