A book signing will follow. The lecture is free and open to the public. In the early 1970s, photographer Rob Amberg moved from Washington, D.C., to the isolated mountain area of Madison County, N.C. Seeking to establish a home in what he saw as a simpler place, Amberg searched for a way to make a living as well as a subject for his photography. He found what he was looking for when a photography student, Sheila Kay (nee Rice) Adams, introduced him to her aunt Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior. At the age of 76, Dellie was a hardscrabble mountain farmer who was still growing and selling tobacco. She was also a ballad singer and storyteller in a tradition that had been handed down for generations. Amberg's photographs and accompanying text reveal the shape and form of a changing culture and a people who wrestled with modern social and economic questions even as they remained firmly rooted in the past.
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