McQueen, Stanley

Stanley Mcqueen was raised on a small twenty-six acre tobacco farm in the back hills of Kentucky. His family lived in an old frame house with no insulation and an ancient heating stove that burned coal. His father was a share cropper, but the little tobacco base on his small farm was not enough to make ends meet for their large family. Stanley's dad farmed full time and drove the County school bus part-time. "I'd never traveled further than Ohio before I was drafted into the military and served one year in South Korea in Hawk Missiles," says Stanley. "When I returned from the army we had runni...