{"product_id":"wooden-churches-a-celebration-9781565122338","title":"Wooden Churches: A Celebration","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough usually plain  sometimes humble  wooden churches are something special. With no fancy accoutrements - the flying buttresses  the mountains of organ pipe  the marble floors  the windows of stained glass - wooden churches distinguish themselves through the people who built them  the people who preach in them  and the place they assume in the civic  moral  and spiritual life of the community. There is something about wooden church that moves artists and writers to very personal acts of creation. Perhaps its the grain of the wood or the flaking paint. Maybe its the strict angles of the eaves and the way footsteps echo across the floor. Wooden Churches glows with the work of such famed photographers as Walker Evans  Russell Lee  Marion Post Wolcott  Gordon Parks  William Christenberry  and Tom Rankin and sings in the words of Eudora Welty  Raymond Carver  James Baldwin  Reynolds Price  Mark Twain  Carson McCullers  Lee Smith  Anne Tyler  John Irving  and Thomas Jefferson  among many others. The images and words follow shared lives from birth to death as they unfold between the hallowed walls of wooden churches large and small: the marriages  the picnics  the baptisms  the political meetings  the funerals  the hoedowns  and even the military strategy sessions of General U.S. Grant. In the tradition of Algonquins bestselling Out on the Porch  Wooden Churches takes the reader up the steps  through the doorway  and down the aisle of hundreds of American wooden churches  old and new  fancy and plain  rich and poor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647035105333,"sku":"ByrdShop_156512233X","price":25.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781565122338.jpg?v=1781686420","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wooden-churches-a-celebration-9781565122338","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}