1.   And as the graves are cleaned, the old timers there pass along family tales.

2.   After the family tales were told, Yates said good-bye to his children, then placed a favorite baby blanket in each casket and helped close them.

3.   His ingenuity was fodder for countless family tales.

4.   There the grandmother and mother shared old family tales in the oral tradition of rural blacks throughout Kentucky.

5.   The walls that go up between people in the outside world had melted away as hostages shared childhood stories, family tales, feelings.