Julian Walker's father, Robert Walker, grew up in a small farming town in North Carolina. At the age of 5, Robert was severely injured in a farming accident.
Here, Walker tells his daughter, Julia Walker Jewell, one of his lasting memories of his father.
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Julian Walker's father, Robert Walker, grew up in a small farming town in North Carolina. At the age of 5, Robert was severely injured in a farming accident.
Here, Walker tells his daughter, Julia Walker Jewell, one of his lasting memories of his father.
Broadcast History
NPR Morning Edition 7/15/11
Transcript
Julian Walker (JW): My father fell off a cart they pulled heavy logs out of the forest with, and the cart ran over him. He was just severely injured, and as an old man, he still had scars on his head where his scalp was rolled back. He was just scalped.
The only medical facility they had up in the town was an old Doctor Shaw, and he did what he could to patch my father up, which was not much. So, he was sent to Wilmington to the hospital. He had to live there and have special care and a family befriended him and took him in.
I'm gonna jump forward seventy-five years. When he was an old man, he would sit in his chair in the front lawn under the oak trees. This one day he was sitting there and an elderly couple came to the house. And the woman was a Mrs. Marshall, and she and my mother were friends. They went into the house. And Mr. Marshall sat out there with us and my dad asked him whe...
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INTRO:Time now for StoryCorps--where friends and families record their stories...
75-year-old Julian Walker wanted to remember his father... who grew up in a small farming town north of Wilmington, North Carolina.
When Julian's dad was five years old, his life changed ...
when he suffered a serious accident...
"My father fell off a cart…that I didn't know."
OUTRO:Julian Walker talking to his daughter Julia Walker Jewell in Wilmington, NC.
Their conversation will be archived with ALL StoryCorps interviews at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Get the PODCAST at NPR dot ORG.
This is NPR News.
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