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White Oak

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White Oak
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Members of the Cobb Family with Ted and Dale Rosengarten and William Ferris in front of a white oak planted in remembrance of Ned Cobb at Pebble Hill.
Members of the Cobb Family with Ted and Dale Rosengarten and William Ferris in front of a white oak planted in remembrance of Ned Cobb at Pebble Hill.

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White Oak

 

This white oak tree was planted on November 5, 2019 as part of a symposium honoring Ned Cobb, a sharecropper from Tallapoosa County.

 

Cobb’s oral history was recorded by Theodore Rosengarten and published in 1974 under the title All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw.  The book won the National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs. 

 

In the interview, Mr. Cobb discussed the craft of making baskets from white oaks just like this one.


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