Cooling the South

by Morris, Elli; Wilkie, Curtis

• ISBN13: 9780979853203
• ISBN10: 0979853206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Wackophoto

Summary

Cooling the South is a heartwarming look at the manufactured ice business by block ice descendant Elli Morris. Her beautifully rendered homage to the men and women who created cold reveals how the block ice era helped shape the American South.

Author Biography

Elli Morris is a freelance photojournalist and writer. Her photography regularly appears in newspapers, trade journals, magazines and on commercial Web sites. Morris' diverse assignments include being the photographer for a scientific expedition in the rainforests of Belize, documenting historical landmarks in a mining town in Virginia, and investigating hurricane recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast. She is a contributing writer for various newspapers and has several monthly columns in trade journals covering such topics as women in the funeral industry and ecologically-sound business trends.Morris has lived in fifteen cities in twelve states in the U.S. and wandered on her own around the globe through fifty countries, hitchhiking, stowing away in boats, and sleeping in different locations every night for months at a time. Her eclectic work world includes being a segment producer for PBS, curriculum developer/instructor of a botanical outreach program serving inner-city third-graders, legislative liaison, art gallery director, textbook reader for the blind, window and art model, tree data collector, kayak and horseback guide, loggerhead sea turtle patroller, ski lift operator, waitress and bartender. Morris has a bachelor's degree from University of Kentucky in forestry and studied photography at University of Nevada-Reno as a graduate special.