A historical investigation into New Orleans' iconic cornstalk fences — their origins, their journey to the city, and the antebellum love story and Jewish Southern experience embedded in their design.
Scott Gibson argues that the cornstalk fences are monuments hiding in plain sight: the complete original design was never erected, and what remains carries a layered history tied to the antebellum South, the Civil War, and the social realities of nineteenth-century Jewish life in southern society. A False Perspective traces how these fences came to exist, why they ended up in New Orleans, and how human ideals and ambitions can lead to consequences no one anticipated.
- Scott Gibson, Author
- Published in 2025
- Hardcover
- 152 pages
- Published by Open Media
- ISBN: 9781732036116
A historical investigation into New Orleans' iconic cornstalk fences — their origins, their journey to the city, and the antebellum love story and Jewish Southern experience embedded in their design.
Scott Gibson argues that the cornstalk fences are monuments hiding in plain sight: the complete original design was never erected, and what remains carries a layered history tied to the antebellum South, the Civil War, and the social realities of nineteenth-century Jewish life in southern society. A False Perspective traces how these fences came to exist, why they ended up in New Orleans, and how human ideals and ambitions can lead to consequences no one anticipated.
- Scott Gibson, Author
- Published in 2025
- Hardcover
- 152 pages
- Published by Open Media
- ISBN: 9781732036116