Family Roots
I was born and raised in Birmingham, AL. I have lived in the Deep South my whole life. In spite of my travels around the country and across the globe, the South is where I call home. My father was born in a little town in south Alabama in Barbour County, outside of Eufaula, called Baker Hill. He lived there until he went off to college in 1967. Growing up I heard about his life of growing up a farm and all the things he learned and had to do to help. One of my fondest memories he has shared is picking cotton. I grew up visiting Baker Hill since I was an infant. I don't know that I always appreciated what I saw and learned about that little area of Barbour County, but now I view it as precious and so important to my family heritage. I am proud of where my dad is from. My grandmother, Lura Bell, his mother, lived her whole life in the Baker Hill and Eufaula area. My memories of my grandmother are her creamed corn and car rides with a rag and thermos of water at her reach. I thi