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An Alabama diary expert was trying to impress an audience:
“If all the cows in Alabama were made into one big cow, it could stand with its feet in the Gulf of Mexico and switch down the aurora borealis at the North Pole with its tail.”
Mom and Dad were well educated and traveled. They’d lived in Jackson and Memphis. Dad was stationed in New York City in World War I. He grew up in a family of four in Belk, Mississippi, and worked his way through school. He received a B.A. from Alabama’s Florence State Teacher’s College, a master’s degree in education from Peabody College in Nashville, as well as attending Auburn, Cornell and the University of Alabama. He always said that education was for those who couldn’t make a living on their own.
Mom came from a family of nine. The oldest worked to put the next in line through college, and so on until everyone had a degree except the oldest, Uncle John. Mom spent several summers at the University of Chicago Women’s College and graduated from Missis- sippi State College for Women in mathematics
