This handsome photojournal offers a window into the traditional folkways
and rich cultural heritage of one of the South's most distinctive regions.

Immortalized in Sidney Lanier's poetry, the Chattahoochee
River forms in the hill country of northwest Georgia, near Brasstown Bald,
and flows southward to become a mighty southern river before it empties
into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola, Florida. For 173 miles of its
mid-length it forms the border between Alabama and Georgia, draining a
watershed of 877,000 square miles and 18 counties between the two...