Toting the Lead Row: Ruby Pickens Tartt, Alabama Folklorist

by Laurella Owens and Virginia Pounds Brown

Book Overview

"You recall the expression 'toting the lead row', don't you? In chopping cotton or corn there is always a leader, one who can chop the fastest of them all. When he finishes his row, he goes back and helps the other choppers finish theirs. The one who totes the lead row takes the lead place in the next row."--Ruby Pickens Tartt As a young woman growing up in Livingston in the Black Belt region of Alabama, Ruby Pickens Tartt developed a keen interest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817300740
• ISBN13: 9780817300746
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.