Category Archives: Why Pie Town?

Anachronistic

Posted on June 15, 2010 by

I’ve been thinking that the images of Pie Town reveal a lot of anachronisms. As homesteaders, I get the sense of Little House on the Prairie. But Little House on the Prairie was set in 1870 and 1880–not 1940. We … Continue reading →

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“It was a hard life.”

Posted on June 13, 2010 by

Jean Lee (wife of photographer Russell Lee) of the people of Pie Town: “It was a hard life, but I don’t think they considered it a particularly hard life at the time. There was a lot of self-entertainment there–the forty-two … Continue reading →

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trying to paint Doris Caudill

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

Doris is the reason I was initially interested in Pie Town. I was looking through the Library of Congress collection on Flickr.com when I discovered this photo: What an amazing face she has. This is the face of a woman … Continue reading →

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New Project

Posted on June 1, 2010 by

Why Pie Town? I fell in love with Russell Lee’s photos from the FSA-OWI project –the same project that allowed Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and many others to document the effects of FDR’s New Deal on rural America. My project for … Continue reading →

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