I met John Kilpatrick forty years ago, in 1983, when I spent the day at his farm documenting the all-day process of hog processing. This practice is all but gone on the small farm today but once allowed people to survive the winter months by providing bacon, sausage, and ham to go along with the vegetables they grew in their gardens and canned. In this episode I ask John to describe this process, which was so important, as it allowed people to have meat for the winter to survive in the remote mountains where he grew up. I also share images I made all those years ago on his farm as I chronicled the day's activities.
John Kilpatrick lives on a family farm in the rural Hominy Valley section of Buncombe County, located in the mountains of western North Carolina. You'll get to meet this thoughtful and sincere man and hear him talk about the challenges and rewards of farm life, his amazing garden, canning, butchering hogs to be able to have meat for the winter, and how things have changed over his lifetime. We'll visit his farm and watch him harvest corn and work in his garden and show off his wife's prized canned goods.
ln addition to my conversation with him, I discuss my own project documenting traditional farm life in Appalachia, why I have worked on it for over four decades, and introduce the three books on Appalachian life that it has yielded. Some of the images from my time with John in 1983 are included in my books, The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm and On Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs, which are part of a trilogy of Appalachian-themed books that also includes, Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia. The books contain hundreds of full-page portraits and landscape images along with oral history interviews with the people.
We think you'll really enjoy meeting John Kilpatrick. He's one of our favorites. We hope you enjoy this episode as we continue to honor the people, vibrant culture, and strong traditions of Appalachia. Be sure to check out our other episodes and our books about the area at www.barnwellphoto.com
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