The Project

The "Cast Your Bucket Down" project takes the basic idea in the 1895 Atlanta Exposition Speech by Booker T. Washington -- "Cast your bucket down where you are." -- and applies it to issues of food consumption and production in Alabama. (To read the speech, click here.)

The blog will be written by 34 creative writing magnet students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama, each of whom has chosen a food or farming related topic to explored from August to December 2010.

After that, the students will each produce a creative work based on their experiences and findings. More on that as the project goes on. The final product will be a short film.