SODOM LAUREL ALBUM

By Rob Amberg

Recipient of the 2003 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western North Carolina Historical Society

The story of one Appalachian community told through photographs, words, and music. Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of Dellie Norton and the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg’s own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger more than twenty years ago. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs, Sodom Laurel Album tells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together.

$45.00 hardcover, with CD / 192 pages / 10 x 9 / 134 duotone photographs and music CD / isbn 0-8078-2742-8

Published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies, with support from the North Carolina Arts Council. A Lyndhurst Book.

Available at bookstores or by calling 800-848-6224

For a sample of the images and audio from Sodom Laurel Album: www.uncpress.unc.edu/amberg