Sunday, April 10, 2005

Time to dispel another rumor

From a seventh-generation Madison County resident, quoted in a Huntsville Times story about a family who gathered in a cemetery Saturday to honor an ancestor who fought in the War of 1812:

"Lots of people, especially from up North, think of us down here as illiterate, barefoot, and pregnant. Not everybody is barefoot and pregnant, though I have been both at the same time."