MS: The town I grew up in, everybody had a stretch from fourteen to whenever, you know, you worked on tobacco. It was where all your friends were in the summer. If you weren't working on tobacco, you'd had nothing to do, really. You know, you finished school and you went to work on the farm.

The boys would get the dirty work and the girls would get the clean work. The boys' work was called suckering. And that was crawling on your hands and knees down the roads and pulling the suckers off. And the other thing I always remember was if we got a little lazy, the superintendent Bill Miller -- God bless him -- would stand out with his hands on his hips. And he says, "Alright you kids." He says, "All I want to see is asses and elbows going up those rows." You know, it was a filthy job because tobacco has tar in it. So you get it all over your hands. And by the end of the day your hands would...
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