Carolina Quotes
You don’t change that much. I could stay away from the mountains a lifetime, and I can still see, know, feel the things that I grew up with. And our way of life was embedded into you so strong that you just naturally knew it. You didn’t have to be told.
Ola Belle Reed Carolinian
Source
Interviews recorded by Henry Glassie, 1966; from Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (Dust-to-Digital), excerpted in Smoky Mountain Living, August 8, 2016
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- interview
- work
- Interviews with Henry Glassie
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- 1966
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“You don’t change that much. I could stay away from the mount…” Ola Belle Reed. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-2DEAF4E1DE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/2deaf4e1de
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