Book/Printed Material [Better a Tent than a Mortgage]
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Image 1 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] Approximately 3500 words r j ISOM CAROLINA WRITERS PROJECT LIFE HISTORY TITLE BETTER A TENT THAN A MORTGAGE Date of First Writing February 28 1939 Name of Person Interviewed I D Strange...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 2 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 2 I didnt want to miss seeing Mr Strother I knocked at the front entrance of his threeroom log cottage He opened the door gazing for a moment in wonderment Then extending...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 3 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 3 They were however covered with boards laid crosswise on top of them My host having built a good fire said Draw up the rocker and have a seat here near me...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 4 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 4 would afford us more to eat because of an advance on a sharecrop Ill never forget the morning I went to Mr Kerningham and asked him for a sharecrop He was...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 5 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 5 eI tied my mules to the hitching post on Assembly dtreet I remember ed how my father did when he sold cotton cut the side of each bale and pulled a...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 6 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 6 I worked this way two years with Mr kerningham Saw that he was getting the best of it as I thought then But there wasnt the slightest misunderstanding between us The...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 7 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 7 I rented from Mrs Rest and stayed there thirteen years We got along fine living in the house with her we thought a lot of her and she liked us Times...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 8 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 8 week she wrote and said she had thought it over seriously and had de cided to accept my proposal and become my wife I tell you I was glad So we...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 9 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 9 The boy thats in high school now was taken ill suddenly about four years ago He fell unconscious on the floor out there in the hell when I got to him...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 10 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 10 We cared for him the best we could rubbing and bathing him and gradually he improved Now he is passing his work at school His body is normal except he cant...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 11 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 11 doing it myself My wife has been working in the sewing room of the WPA off and on mostly off Sometime ago they told her that since we own our farm...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 12 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 12 court I wasnt twelve years old We had a day out picking cotton for a neighbor vie started picking on one end of a large field with rows seven or eight...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28
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Image 13 of [Better a Tent than a Mortgage] 13 know Ive made it hard for myself That old truck out there in the yard is what we use when we go anywhere It takes just as much if not more...- Contributor: Cogburn, L. E. - Strange, W. D.
- Date: 1939-02-28