Carolina Quotes
Growing up in rural North Carolina before television had taken over our lives, people would sit on the porch and spin yarns.
Randall Kenan Carolinian
Source
Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine profile, UNC-Chapel Hill, fall 2018
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- interview
- work
- Carolina Arts & Sciences profile
- year
- 2018
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