GOODBYE TO A STATE

A Tour of South Carolina in Photography and Poetry.

The poems and photographs in this book portray not only a state but a state of mind.

For several decades, the author traveled the backroads and crossroads of South Carolina, observing and experiencing the thoughts and feelings of its disparate people - at times gracious, sometimes troublesome, occasionally alarming and regretful, always deeply engrained, and never negotiable.

In these pages, you will see how love and hate and ignorance and gentility do a strange, awesome dance together, in a place where time and change must wait.Like other states, South Carolina boasts its share