(This is the first of a two part series.) Though time has mostly forgotten it because all the people who knew it and lived it have died, it’s hard to deny -- mainly due to the effect it had on Daddy throughout his life. Times were hard in those Appalachian mountains of Daddy’s upbringing. The Depression loomed large. The hard, nutrient-starved, red dirt grew little. There was no electricity and little warmth during the icy winters. Newspapers were stuffed in the holes of the walls of shacks that could barely withstand the winds that blew.