Then's when we'd tell the old tales about Jack. Why, them kids would work for hours and never a sound out of them, long as I'd keep telling them tales.
Ray Hicks Carolinian
Source
Recollections quoted in his National Heritage Fellowship biography, National Endowment for the Arts, 1983
- form
- interview
- work
- National Heritage Fellowship biography
- year
- 1983
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“Then's when we'd tell the old tales about Jack. Why, them ki…” Ray Hicks. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-0E028D3954. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/0e028d3954
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