Benjamin Franklin Award for Poetry / Literary Criticism in 2011 by the Independent Book Publisher Association This book of poetry, songs and photographs is a tribute to the faded glory of South Carolina's rural past. It features haunting images of abandoned farmhouses, leaning tobacco barns, and boarded up redbrick towns of another era in Lowcountry South Carolina. Combined with powerful verse, these images inspire an appreciation for the often-overlooked region that is withering away.