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...room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper we had to fill up on turnip greens and sometimes at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits-but that was plenty...
...during the night. Until that task is completed, no one is allowed to venture out of the settlement to farm. The boys do the rough work in the fields, the girls work in the kitchen and care for Kallia's menage of 450 ducks, eight dogs and a mule...
...post in Madrid, Singh set out to record the art of the whole Himalayan region. Most crucial to his success was a letter from the Dalai Lama -he carried it "like a magic wand." It authorized him to photograph inside Hindu and Buddhist temples, which is ordinarily prohibited. By mule, Jeep, helicopter and on foot, across dizzying rope bridges, up perilous footpaths, he scaled heights that literally took his breath away. Once he narrowly escaped death when he slipped and fell, only to catch a sturdy bush ten feet down the mountainside. An equally unnerving incident occurred when...
...True Grit, a western in which he co-stars with John Wayne. In all, Campbell figures to make about $3,000,000 this year, which is mighty good for somebody who recalls that he spent most of his early life "lookin' at the north end of a southbound mule. I always thought the world was made up of countrysides and cows and horses and pigs and chickens until I left home, you know...
That's because a traveller on the main roads wouldn't see many of the people that live behind the hills. It takes some arduous tracking on the red dirt roads and the mule paths to find the hard-core poor. Alabama's poor are slightly more visible than those lost in the urban ghettos, but it's still easy to forget they are there until a trip up the dirt road shows them too clearly...