Robert Lee Parton was born in 1921 in the hills of East Tennessee. He grew up in a time and place where formal education was a luxury most mountain families couldn't afford. School required shoes. School required books. School required a long walk on roads that barely existed.
So he worked. And he never learned to read. And his fourth daughter became one of the most famous people in the world partly because she couldn't stop wondering what he might have become if things had been different.
The article is not finished. Click on the next page to continue.
The article is not finished. Click on the next page to continue.
Next page