The Last Witness from a Dirt Road

A moving coming-of-age story, written, possibly by one of the last of Southerners to grow up on a working sugar plantation in rural Louisiana. Told through the eyes and voice of the son of the white overseer, this is a unique portrait of a time and place on the cusp of dramatic change.

Bill Hunt was born into the family of a sharecropper in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, near the small town named Bunkie. In the mid 1930s his father became the overseer of a large sugarcane plantation and the family moved to the this black community setting where Hunt grew up. Hunt received an Accounting Degree in 1956 from the University of Louisiana Lafayette. A few months later, he entered the military, where he worked in Army Finance in Washington state and Alaska. He retired from his profession in health care administration in 1991, and began to write about a unique childhood lost in history, on a Louisiana sugar plantation. Proceeds will be donated to Bill Hunt's hometown of Bunkie, in Louisiana as seed money to develop a Boys and Girls Club. He lives with his wife Grace in Athens, Alabama with their four children and nine grandchildren nearby.