Jim Crawford

Jim Crawford has lived a varied and unconventional life. A musician and songwriter, Jim has also worked as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, taking time off to sail in the South Pacific and bicycle through Australia and New Zealand. In the early 1990s, Jim spent time in Central America notably studying the demise of the traditional fishing culture in a Belizean village. He received his MS in Geography from Virginia Tech in 1995. Jim loves talking with people about their lives and has shared their...See more

Jim Crawford has lived a varied and unconventional life. A musician and songwriter, Jim has also worked as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, taking time off to sail in the South Pacific and bicycle through Australia and New Zealand. In the early 1990s, Jim spent time in Central America notably studying the demise of the traditional fishing culture in a Belizean village. He received his MS in Geography from Virginia Tech in 1995. Jim loves talking with people about their lives and has shared their stories as a writer and through several documentary films he has produced, including Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South. See less