There was some competition, I don’t know if competition is the right word. We were taking notes on what everybody else was doing.

I won the first round by getting arrested.

It seems to me that if there was competition, it was one like between those of us who maybe, like myself, didn’t see ourselves as intellectual types. We were more oriented towards the personal and those like Rusty and Joe, who had such a capacity to talk about these political philosophers and whoever, you know, […]

One of the things that he got real excited about once was a conversation Joe Goodman and I had when he was driving us some place. Joe said, “I’m sorry, but I think these people are lazy.” We were talking about Appalachia, you know. “These people are just lazy. They could work but they don’t.” […]

I was telling him that actually I had a harder time living in Appalachia with the whites who were poor than I had living with, let’s say, with my black family. Well, what I was describing to him in a funny sort of way it was like I could not be judgmental towards the black […]

There were certain things I had theologically not dealt with. The whole Pentecostal thing, the speaking in tongues thing, was a very big issue in the country. The Charismatic Renewal was just beginning and so we went to a lot of churches where this was done and then we went to a lot of churches […]

When I went to Kentucky for a number of reasons I had to change my home-stay. I had gotten changed to a family and I had only been with this family for a couple of weeks and I developed a tremendous attachment to that whole area and to that whole family. So when it came […]