11. But he still has scars on his hands from picking cotton. 12. Glover and his siblings often joined them in the fields, picking cotton, gathering watermelons and feeding the hogs. 13. Hated to go out there and pick cotton. 14. He learned to hate picking cotton, but he loved to listen to his father play the fiddle. 15. He picked cotton with his grandma on a Georgia plantation. 16. He grew up picking cotton in Leonard. 17. He was born in Mound Bayou, Miss., where he picked cotton with his grandmother. 18. Her daily routine consisted of going to school and supplementing the family income by picking cotton, supplying corn to the local mill or picking plums and pecans. 19. His grandmother, mother and aunts picked cotton, and he sometimes worked in the fields alongside them. 20. His mama picked cotton and washed laundry for a living. |