Description: With more than 250 stunning color images, this new volume chronicles the historical, community, religious, and architectural significance of fifty new sites, while simultaneously calling for their historic preservation when possible.
Brief description: SONNY SEALS is the coauthor, with George S. Hart, of the award-winning Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (Georgia), published in 2016. Also with George S. Hart, he is a cofounder of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a nonprofit formed in 2013 for the purpose of researching and documenting some of Georgia's most historic and architecturally significant rural churches. Seals is a graduate of Georgia Tech and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Review Quotes: This new volume from Historic Rural Churches of Georgia continues the organization's excellent tradition of sharing Georgia's rich history and highlighting the importance of religious spaces and practices across many communities of faith. The beautiful photographs and engaging narratives draw readers into the lives of many diverse Georgians, whether Primitive Baptists in the Wiregrass region, circuit-riding Methodists in the Piedmont, or Presbyterians building churches of stone in the mountains. Through the stories of these historic rural churches, this book bares the soul of nineteenth-century Georgia in all its many forms.--Jan Love "Dean, Candler School of Theology, Emory University"