Carolina Quotes
Well, mountain people don't like change for one thing and the other thing is that they stay in the same place. It's just like the woman that I refer to as Granny. Granny lived, was married, raised her children, buried all of them but one, buried her husband, and then died and was buried herself within a five-mile radius
Sheila Kay Adams Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Interview with Josephine Reed on her front porch in Madison County, Art Works podcast, National Endowment for the Arts, September 6, 2013
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“Well, mountain people don't like change for one thing and th…” Sheila Kay Adams. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-62E77855A9. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/62e77855a9
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