In 1971 James Seay Brown Jr. moved to Birm ingham with his young family to start his first full-time teaching job at Samford University specializing in modern European history. Within days he discovered the Cahaba River\, and soon was regularly exploring many of Al abama&rsquo\;s rivers and much of its countryside&mdash\;from the Paint Ro ck River on the Tennessee line to Wolf Bay on the Intracoastal Waterway. H e was enchanted both by the myriad animals and plants he discovered and by the surviving old-time settler and Native American folkways so closely ti ed to their seasonal migrations and development. In this program\, he delv es deeper into folklore studies for their insights into history. Local exa mples presented themselves in abundance&mdash\;Sacred Harp singers and Afr ican American railroad callers\; the use of handmade snares and stationary fishtraps to catch river redhorse and freshwater drum during their spawni ng cycles\; white oak basketmaking and herbal medicine traditions\; the ev olution of the single-pen log cabin into the impressive two-story I-house\ ; and many more.
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