Liberty Square Observed and Noted

- Johnnie related how he asked his future father-in-law for his daughter Anna's hand in marriage, when there was in the family an older daughter, Madeline. Johnnie said, "Him say 'no, you can't a hava Anna, you take a Madeline.' I say, 'Donta wanta the Madeline, wanta the Anna, 'Him say' no, damma haffa take a the Madeline." Johnnie and Madeline had eleven children. - The first day you started cutting tobacco you thought surely you would die. The second and third day you wished you had. - L...