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| MEMPHIS TN essay by Joe York This project funded by a grant from the National Pork Board |
Contributors Amy Evans heads the Oral History Initiative for the Southern Foodways Alliance. Originally from Houston, Texas, she received her B.F.A in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. Amy is also an exhibiting artist, freelance photographer, art educator and co-founder of PieceWorks, a non-profit community arts and outreach organization based in Oxford, Mississippi. April Grayson is a documentary filmmaker from Rolling Fork, Mississippi. She received her B.A. in English from Millsaps College and is a graduate of the University of Washington's Documentary Film Production program. April has produced several short documentaries and is working on a feature-length piece about her hometown. She has also worked on feature films with such renowned directors as Charles Burnett and Wim Wenders. April is a co-founder of PieceWorks, a non-profit community arts and outreach organization based in Oxford, Mississippi. Joe York hails from the big city of Glencoe, Alabama and wants you to know about it. He holds a B.A. from Auburn University and will receive his M.A. from the University of Mississippi in 2004. Joe is also a writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most recent documentary project took him to Berea, Kentucky, where he filmed Bill Best, curator and collector of heirloom vegetables and founder of the Sustainable Agriculture Mountain Center. Joe lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
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