Eugene M. Wilson, Ph.D.

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“Throughout Alabama and most other parts of the county, profound economic and cultural changes have been brought about since World War II. Agriculture has become more modernized and commercialized, new crops have replaced the old, and the rural population continues to be drawn away toward the dream of urban material well-being. The traditional agricultural landscape of Alabama has greatly changed. The old farmsteads are going; where once existed thousands of acres of open farmland, there is now extensive secondary forest, much of it composed of ‘old field pine,’ where few structures survive. Few areas retain the real flavor of traditional rural life; only in parts of the Tennessee Valley, Sand Mountain, the Piedmont, the Black Belt, the Wiregrass, and southwest Alabama does some of this character remain. Most of the rest has been replaced with elements of the modern economy.” – Alabama Folk Houses, from the Introduction

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For Fun… Excerpts from one of Dr. Wilson’s [student] Papers

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