Raised on Pinto Beans and Cornbread

My memories of growing up poor in Jackson County Alabama, in Pisgah and Blow Gourd on Sand Mountain, and in Bridgeport and Stevenson in the Valley, living in old run down houses, staying warm in the winter in front of an old fireplace, eating pinto beans and cornbread for supper just about every night, picking cotton and bootlegging moonshine whiskey and dreaming of a better life and later turning those dreams into reality