Country Store to Corner Market: Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi offers an engaging and enlightening look at country stores from early dry goods stores to mom-and-pop groceries. The book traces the history of stores on the rural roadside and neighborhood groceries in the city. It continues on to early supermarkets and the Piggly Wiggly. The unique and varied region stretches from the Gulf of Mexico and Deep South to the hill country in the north of each state.

Country Store to Corner Market: Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi looks at the varied cultures in weaving a popular history from frontier times to the stores and markets of today. It is a story of people and their bonds to their homeplace and each other from cotton picking to New Orleans jazz. Through captioned photographs of storekeepers and customers, farmers and townspeople, this book emphasizes daily life from buying flour and sugar to visiting with neighbors while waiting for the morning mail.

Country stores and corner markets were once the gathering place for everyone in the community. Pull up a chair and enjoy these touching and sometimes humorous glimpses into the lives of our ancestors when they were once young.

Raymond Bial has been taking photographs and creating books for nearly fifty years. To date, he has published more than a hundred books for children and adults. Raymond's most recent books include The Shaker Village, a lovely collection of color photographs depicting the simplicity and grace of this remarkable community. He has also published several works of fiction, including Chigger, a touching and humorous novel, and several scary mysteries and collections of ghost stories. Among his most popular books over the years have been Where Lincoln Walked and The Underground Railroad.

ISBN: 9781634993111

Paperback

96 pages

6 x 9

America Through Time, 2021