Hicks, 54, grew up in Florida with a devotion to Southern culture, one inherited from his grandparents, who were wealthy farmers from western Tennessee. I'd travel around with my family as a child, and you'd pass through these towns Charleston, small towns in Georgia and you'd see these signs, 'Where the Old South Lived, Where the Old South Lived, ... Well, here in Franklin, this is where the Old South died.
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The police received a call from a pay phone in the high school that a student heard a conversation in the bathroom about a bomb, ... But someone may not have overheard anything.Robert Hicks
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Transcending stereotypes was difficult, ... Often people don't want to know what was true. They want to know what is attractive. The fact of the matter is, no one in the mid-19th century here was using Oriental rugs they were using wall-to-wall carpet.
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When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes'
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