Carolina Quotes
But I stay here on the old homeplace like a rabbit in the briar patch.
Ray Hicks Carolinian
Source
Interview at his home on Beech Mountain, North Carolina, in Su Clauson-Wicker's profile "Ray Hicks: America's Premiere Storyman," Blue Ridge Country magazine
- form
- interview
- work
- Blue Ridge Country profile
- year
- 1990
Cite this record
“But I stay here on the old homeplace like a rabbit in the br…” Ray Hicks. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-80909B4F95. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/80909b4f95
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