Tom Coffin

Southern Exposure Contributor

Tom Coffin helped found The Great Speckled Bird in Atlanta in 1968. In addition to being an engineering technician, he has, at various times, been a pulp mill worker, a truck driver, a household furniture mover, a writer, a photographer, a carpenter. At present, he's working as an oiler out of Local 926 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, sitting in the seat of a 100-ton crane just as often as the operator lets him. "And I'm having more fun pulling levers than I did testing dirt." (1980)

Tom Coffin, a founder of The Great Speckled Bird, is currently a concrete tester and photographer in Atlanta. (1976)

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