Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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A personal memory

A personal memory

My grandfather "Paw Paw" was born on this day in 1908

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Grandfathers hold special places in our memories. One of my grandfathers was quite elderly and infirm when I was a child and I barely remember him. The other grandfather, who I called Paw Paw, loomed large. He was born in North Carolina in 1908, the son of a restless tenant farmer. He died in 1990, age eighty-two. Here is what my father, Thomas Bruce Ya…

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