One of Daddy’s Stories

April 1939 — Good Friday — Cloverdale, Alabama

Eulis was startled awake by a noisy crow. He had dozed off after eating a lunch Louise Abramson had brought him at noon.

Louise’s family owned a dairy farm near Cloverdale, where Eulis had been working and living for the last two years. Her father, Richard Abramson, and several of his nearby siblings were the offspring of a Finnish couple who had…