My long-time friend and collaborator, Charlie Thompson, will be reading from his new book, Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land, at the Madison Container Company in downtown Marshall on Friday evening, March 6, at 6:30p.m.
We will also share the stage together for a few minutes looking at photographs from our trips and talking about them.
Jim Smyre and Family planting tobacco, Harmony, North /Carolina 1987.
When I think about Charlie Thompson, a number of things come to mind. There is his overwhelming commitment to the common man - the underserved, the small farmers, the downtrodden, those among us who haven’t been able to achieve their dreams. I think about his intensity of belief, his integrity, and the value he places on dialogue and story. I think about his love of tradition, of old ways, and the importance of holding our history close to our hearts. But mostly when I think about Charlie, I think about the soil, the land, the dirt under fingernails, and understand that that is where his true happiness lies.