OLD FOLKS AT HOME: A FLORIDA CRACKER'S SUNSET CRUISE
Book I. Florida's Forgotten Coast. May 18 - June 10. 34,000 words. A travel book, a restaurant guide, with hints on ecotourism. A wine tour of Northwest Florida, like Sideways. A trip down Memory Lane. Longing for the old plantation. The darkeys in the song didn't long for the plantation, they longed for the old folks at home, on the plantation. They longed for kith and kin. Compare uncouth. Uncultured, crude, boorish. White folks ain't like us. Book I is a cultural ecology of the mullet culture, in which I visit Indian sites I dug, places I worked, applied for a job at, was let go from. Retired to.
Book II. Florida's Emerald Coast. June 11 - June 16. 10,000 words. I see that Book II is about the corporate cubicle dot-com culture, which I contrast with the mullet culture. I worked in the corporate cubicle dot-com culture, and most of the people who are moving to Florida's Emerald Coast, or come on a visit, work in it.
Book III. Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. June
17 - __________. In progress. The relation between, or among, Americana, or roots
music, folk, or self-taught art, and vernacular writing. Also more about the corporate
cubicle dot-com culture's relation to affirmative action. Nobody working for a living
ever owned a plantation. A dead horse isn't being flogged, the wrong horse is being
flogged. This is Nixon's Southern Strategy, and it still works.