Allen Shelton

"Allen Shelton was born in 1955 in Alabama. He is an associate Professor of Sociology. He arrived in Buffalo in 1998 in a Toyota one-ton pickup with 233,000 miles on the engine. The truck was stolen which left him with a pair of R.M. Williams boots, a transparent Pelikan, Xenophon's Anabasis, cuffed Momotaro’s, Rhodia paper, a creek named Cottaquila in another life, a Wetterling ax, an Ikaria disk, an abacus, a flower shirt that has never been washed, and Auburn, the color of the plains. He keeps time with a Bauman & Mercier mechanical. His new book Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press." (Shelton)

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