Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., is professor emeritus
at the Citadel and adjunct professor of biological sciences at
Clemson University, USA, where he established the Wade T. Batson
Endowment in field botany. Porcher is the author of Wildflowers of
the Carolina Lowcountry and Lower Pee Dee, and the coauthor of A
Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina (both by the University
of South Carolina Press) and The Story of Sea Island Cotton.
Porcher serves as a trustee of the South Carolina Nature
Conservancy and on the board of directors of the Charleston Library
Society, the Waring Library, and the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation.
He is the 2008 recipient of the South Carolina Environmental
Awareness Award.
William Robert Judd, a self-taught
draftsman/artist, archaeologist, and historian, is retired from the
U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPARWAR).
... a well-executed study of the evolution of technology and the
growth of one of America's staple industries.-- "The North Carolina
Historical Review"
Porcher and Judd have provided an excellent reference book.... All
historians of the South, agriculture, and technology should have it
on their shelves.-- "The Journal of Southern History"
The discussion of technology, in terms of equipment and water flow
technology is excellent.-- "L.S. Cline. Choice Connect"
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