Carolina Quotes
I was grounded in my early childhood by my grandmother at whose apron strings I learned the difference between right and wrong and followed her to the farm to milk the cow.
Ruth Dial Woods Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview, June 12, 1992, Interview L-0078, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Ruth Dial Woods
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- 1992
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