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Farming in Monrovia, Alabama

Cowan, Tennessee

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What is your memory of living in a small town?

"I remember in '51, 1951 I was 11 years old and boll weevils got our crop. We didn't have no Christmas that year. It was looking bad for us and I remember that song, 'That's The Way It Was in '51,' and man, the dance hall plays it for the town in over there. And '52 comes around, I was hired to come in ... and the cotton, back in '51 cotton was about 18 cents a pound, and I was hired and got 14 cents a pound, we was doing good.

Daddy bought Momma a Chevrolet car. So in '54 we started on our own, we sold our business in '75. He died two years later. Right up there through Northfield Alabama, all the kids I went to school with, helped us pick our own cotton later on in the year in the 50s and 60s, yeah..."

 

Asset ID: 7408
Tags: #Farming #Agriculture #Memories

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