This is the sixth in a series on turpentining in the U.S. One day in 1982, I was minding my own business as chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Georgia Southern when Denver Hollingsworth walked into my office and my life has not been the same. An avid cultural conservationist — although he never would have used that term — he proposed a project to repair the Carter turpentine still in Portal after a quarter of a century of disuse and run it again as a living history lesson. Having conducted a number of cultural heritage projects in the region, I was interested and agreed.
On Aging with Dr. Roger Branch Sr.: Catface Country in Portal


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