"In their exuberance at spending the first year of their marriage at the University of Texas, the two high school valedictorians named me, their first child, "U.T.." They finally earned their college degrees in Mother's home state, Kentucky, after the birth of three more children and much moving from jobs to school. Not long after the Great Depression hit, my father lost his job in the oil business and began trying to make a living as a traveling salesman. We moved to McKenzie, a town of about 2,600 people in west Tennessee. Mother, preparing to be a minister, attended the Cumberland...
"In their exuberance at spending the first year of their marriage at the University of Texas, the two high school valedictorians named me, their first...
