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An abandoned Cadillac is soon to be yet another kudzu victim.

Used car lot, west of Centerboro.

The road leading to Hobe's Hill is smooth and paved, but road crews still have to chop back kudzu vines monthly.

The home of Bud Woods is where Agee and Evans stayed much of the time during their 1936 visit. Fifty years later the house was reduced to a pile of rotting wood. The site was later overgrown with kudzu vines and could not be found.

Maggie Louise, top, was a bright 10-year-old, who Agee and Evans predicted would escape the bonds of poverty and live a happy life. After many low paying jobs and failed marriages, she committed suicide at the age of 45. Her daughter, Parvin,…

Soybean farmer Joe Bridges, bottom, stands in the same field where Bud Woods, top, planted his cotton in 1936. Bridges was the last farmer to work these fields. He went bankrupt in 1988, a year and a half after this photo.

Margaret Ricketts still washes her dishes by hand as she did in 1936. She was 19 when Agee and Evans stayed with her family.

Fifty years ago Farm Security Administration photographer Walker Evans was sent to rural Alabama to focus on the affects of the Depression on three white cotton sharecropper families. These photographs are not just an update of what happened to…

After his conviction, state law dictated that Woodson would serve a minimum of five years.

I couldn't bear to watch them take my baby away, said mother Cassandra as she wept in a dingy basement stairwell of the courthouse. She had run away and was found there an hour after jurors convicted her son of voluntary manslaughter.