by A. B. LONGSTREET, introduction by RICHARD HARWELL, xx + 252 pages, 12 illustrations What made people laugh in 1835? Georgia Scenes is a pioneering experiment of American folk humor, a document of Southern social history and an evocative portrait of frontier Georgia life. The author, taking the self-conscious risk of writing for posterity, preserved vivid scenes of drunken fights in forest clearings, frolics in isolated log cabins, clumsy shooting competitions between braggart settlers, a fox hunt on an uncooperative steed, the grim sport of a greasy gander-pulling. This is the only modern edition of Georgia Scenes to be based on the book as it was first published in 1835 at Augusta, Georgia, with the special spice of the original eccentric spelling and punctuation. The book is decorated with twelve illustrations from the New York edition of 1840. isbn 0-88322-004-0 hardcover$35.00 The Beehive Foundation 208 West Harris Street Savannah, Georgia 31401 These books are published without profit as an educational service. Keywords: The Beehive Foundation, The Beehive Press, Books About the South, Southern History, books, gift books, coffee-table books, coffee table books, presents, publiser, publishing, press, architecture, civil war, old south, slavery, southern plantations, documentary histories, restoration, Savannah, Georgia, scholar, historian, author, Mills Lane, Mills Bee Lane, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Architecture of the Old South, Charleston, confederacy, colonial, revolutionary war, sherman, greek revival, romantic, antebellum, federal, Free Joe, Trouble in July, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang, Robert E. Burns, a milestone in the publishing of books on georgia and the south, books that are artistic, important and beautiful, bee-hive, behive, small press, non-profit, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, birthday presents.