Historian Jack Temple Kirby has died<http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112961.html>

Source: *St. Augustine
Record*<http://www.legacy.com/StAugustine/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=131106324>(August
9, 2009)
Jack Temple Kirby, 70, died Aug. 6, 2009, at Flagler Hospital. He was born
in Portsmouth, Va., the son of Clifford Kirby and Theodosia Palmer Kirby. He
graduated from Old Dominion University and received his master's and
doctorate degrees from the University of Virginia. He was W.E. Smith
professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where his
specialties were the American South, rural and agricultural history, and
environmental history. He was author or editor of seven books, including
"Media-Made Dixie"; "Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960";
"Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society"; and "Mockingbird Song:
Ecological Landscapes of the South," which won the Bancroft Prize in 2007.

At his death, he was president of the Southern Historical Association. For
some years he was editor of the series Studies in Rural Cultures at the
University of North Carolina Press. He was a past president of the
Agricultural History Society and a former Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the
University of Genoa in Italy. He also served on a number of editorial
boards. He moved to St. Augustine in 2003.

He is survived by a son, Matthew Kirby, of New York City; a daughter,
Valerie Kirby, and her husband, Mark Bruhn; and two granddaughters, Ella and
Sophie Bruhn, all of Fort Wayne, Ind.; two sisters, Susan Kirby, of
Portsmouth, and Betsy Andrews of Midlothian, Va,; and by his companion of 17
years, Constance Pierce. Following cremation, his remains will be interred
in the family plot at West Point, Va.

Posted on History News Network, Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com

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