Edisto River:
Black Water Crown Jewel
Story by Susan Kammeraad-Campbell
Photographs by Larry Price
N
ine years ago, a gentle-faced woman
approached my booth at the South Carolina
Book Festival. The first words I ever heard
her speak were words of apology. She
hoped she wasn’t bothering me. She didn’t say who she was,
but instead said she had some photographs her husband had
taken that she wanted me to see.
I had not known Rosie Price for more than a few minutes,
and I had yet to meet her husband, but I knew without a
doubt I would publish Larry Price’s photographs. Before Rosie
left my booth, we were already talking about organizing the
book to follow the flow of the Edisto River, an arrangement
of images and words that would take the reader on a journey
from the headwaters near Aiken down more than 300 miles
of curving and winding river to the Atlantic Ocean.
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