Word: oney
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes to church, but likes to shout and praise God while carving. Unlike most religious Negroes, William Edmondson never quotes the Bible. "The oney time," said he last week, "as I tried to read the Bible against God's wishes all the leaves came out." He says that one day when he was 14 years old and working in a cornfield, the figure of God appeared on the east edge of a cloud...