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Playing Hooky

“Then later on when I went to High School, I played hooky and would catch a bus over to Sedamsville,
where the Anderson Ferry was. You could spend a dime and go across the river on a boat. I would
cross the river and walk up one of those old country roads to a grocery store and get me a snack cake.

I smoked at the time, and I probably got a pop and a cigarette. There was a little creek there and I
would go up under the bridge of that creek and eat my cake and drink my pop and smoke my
cigarette until it was time to go home. A lot of times I would go up and down the railroad tracks and
count the number of cross ties between the rails. It just seems to me like the number 14 was the

number of cross ties there was between each rail. It was just something to do to get out of studying. I
wasn’t very studious.”

Earl Davison from interview recorded in 2003