Author Ken Roberts will share stories and discuss the research and interviews he conducted while writing the book, The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing.
Ken Roberts retired from Southwestern University, where he was a professor of Economics for more than 30 years. His teaching and research focused on the effects of agricultural change on poor farmers in developing countries, especially Mexico and China.
His work on the cedar choppers in central Texas continues in that vein, but unlike farmers who fled the land in response to lower prices and mechanization, these folks hung on.
He and his family have lived on a ranch outside Liberty Hill for the past 45 years.