Contents
ONE Land, Farm, and Place
TWO Sharecropping as a Way of Life
THREE Hard Times, and Politics
FOUR My Life as a Young Pup
FIVE My Mama and Daddy
SIX Boiled Peanuts in Plains
SEVEN Breaking Ground, to Be a Man
EIGHT Learning More About Life
NINE Learning About Sin
TEN The Carters of Georgia
ELEVEN The Navy Versus Plains
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
Chapter One
Land, Farm, and Place
If you leave Savannah on the coast and travel on the only U.S. highway that goes
almost straight westward across the state of Georgia, you will cross the
Ogeechee, Oconee, and Ocmulgee rivers, all of which flow to the south and east
and empty into the Atlantic Ocean. After about three hours you'll cross the
Flint River, the first stream that runs in a different direction, and eventually
its often muddy waters empty into the Gulf of Mexico. Unlike the Continental
Divide in the Rocky Mountains, our "divide" is not noticeable, because the land
was all part of the relatively flat bottom of the sea in the not-too-distant
geological past. It is still rich and productive, thanks to the early ocean
sediments an ... read full excerpt from: An Hour Before Daylight ebook
