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A memoir and a manifesto in progress, essays, and the stories one South Georgia county never put in its official history.
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Exhibits built one at a time: the 1949 Hornets, the UFC from the lip of the cage, a boy on a tractor in winter.
The roomsSelected work
Three places to begin.
Each of these stands on its own. Start with whichever one sounds like you.
The Man Who Named Adel
Early 1873, J.T. Wilkes' store. A Parrish covers eight letters on the word Philadelphia and a town gets its name.
Read the story → Essay · First published May 2020The Quintessential Sexiness of a Man's White Shirt
Three Brooks Brothers shirts on a blue-tag day at Goodwill, ninety-nine cents each, and everything a man's white shirt has ever meant.
Read the essay → Archive · 1949The Hornet Gazette
Cook County High, Class B state champions. The clippings, the lineups, the train ride, and the Hornets who brought the title home.
Open the Gazette →The rooms
Each project has a door.
Some open onto whole worlds of their own.
The Cook Book
A memoir and a manifesto out of one South Georgia county, told out of order, the way memory actually arrives. Because I'm not done yet.
Enter → § 02HereThe Parrish Line
The family line that shaped a town: Adel, Cook County, Georgia.
Enter → § 03HereThe Archive
Fifty million watermelons go to market. Then and now. A president passed through. What the ground remembers. My people.
Enter → § 04Live ↗Dead Man Coming
My father's 1983 account of the Alday murders: ten thousand copies, sold out, out of print for forty years. The authorized reprint, numbered and signed.
Reserve a copy → § 05Live ↗No Holds Barred
One reporter, one camera, and press credentials to the rawest show on earth, shot from the lip of the cage. 112 plates.
Enter → § 06Live ↗All the Pretty Tractors
Georgia to Washington at twelve miles an hour, winter 1978–79, shot at eleven from the bunk over the cab. Forty-four plates.
Enter →In print
The byline, on the page.
Thirty years of national assignments, filed under my own name. Tear sheets and full scans on request.
- PenthouseFeatures and reportage. The Marathon des Sables, run and filed from inside the Sahara.
- Soldier of FortuneFirst woman on the masthead.
- Men’s JournalEndurance, expedition and the people who do it on purpose.
- RazorContributing writer. Profiles and long-form.
- Gallery“Athletes on the Edge” — Killer Sports.
- AxcessThe International Fighting Championship, Kiev.
- Black BeltUFC coverage from the beginning, cageside.
- Gold Leaf · Discover CookSouth Georgia features, editing and photography.
Clips, contact sheets and licensing — ask and I’ll send them.
About
Home is the assignment I saved for last.
For thirty years I chased the story across six continents, filing from wherever the assignment sent me, for whoever would run it.
Now the lens is pointed at Adel, Cook County, Georgia. The place I'm from. The people I come from. I'm telling its story, not its history: nonlinear, connected across time, chasing meaning the way I once chased datelines.
This is the workshop, where I think out loud about what I'm building and where each project has a door.
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Assignments, licensing, and stories.
rpostell@robinpostell.comTell me what you need, what the deadline is, and where it has to run. I answer from Adel, Georgia.