George Thomas Baxter, Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee
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George Thomas Baxter, around 23 years old when recorded in 1939, was a resident of Cosby in Cocke County, Tennessee. He had about four years of formal education and worked as a CCC maintenance man at that time.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
Folks, this here is George Thomas Baxter, I was born and raised on Cosby and went to school at Liberty and moved to Jefferson County and going to read you a little story about a rat.
[READS ARTHUR THE RAT PASSAGE]
B: I j-, I joined up to the CCs at Jefferson County and come in the fourth of uh April and been in eight months and ...
I: xx.
B: been working on the road banks, building trails, and first one thing and another.
I: xx. -----
B: What’s that?
I: Tell how you like Newport.
B: Newport’s a mighty fine place for a young man to go, he can really have a good time, it’s a nice place.