Being Poor but Not Knowing It
This is a story about growing up in the 1940s during the Second World War--of being poor but not knowing it.
The setting is the small mill town of Cooleemee, North Carolina. The story is told by William Franklin Milholen, or Billy as his mama called him. He was the seventh child born to Myrtle and Tom Milholen. He attempts to talk about life for a young linthead, as workers from the cotton mills we...
This is a story about growing up in the 1940s during the Second World War--of being poor but not knowing it.
The setting is the small mill town of Cooleemee, North Carolina. The story is told by William Franklin Milholen, or Billy as his mama called him. He was the seventh child born to Myrtle and Tom Milholen. He attempts to talk about life for a young linthead, as workers from the cotton mills we...
