Janisse Ray

Hidden from vacationers by the road's hedge and the hulks of old cars and blown-out tires, Janisse Ray's childhood was spent in a Georgia junkyard along U.S. Highway 1. In Ecology of a Cracker Childhood she tells her story and how a childhood spent in rural isolated, steeped in religious fundamentalism lead to a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once blanketed the South. Her language is colloquial, elegiac, and informative ...