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Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Pants by Retha Hicks
Manage episode 407769751 series 3271587
Retha Hicks joins us with a tale of how she successfully protested the dress code for teachers in Fayette County Public Schools in the early 1970's.
Retha Perkins Hicks is a writer, a tour guide at Waveland State Historic Site, and a retired public school teacher. She was born in an Eastern Kentucky coal camp and lived in several different coal camps until she was eight years old. Those coal camps are the background of many of her childhood stories. She is a proud mother of four sons and grandmother of four grandchildren. She lives in Lexington with her Miniature Schnauzer, Edgar.
Theme song "Appalachian Lofi" composed and performed by Bryan Klausing and Christine Cole.
100 episodes
Manage episode 407769751 series 3271587
Retha Hicks joins us with a tale of how she successfully protested the dress code for teachers in Fayette County Public Schools in the early 1970's.
Retha Perkins Hicks is a writer, a tour guide at Waveland State Historic Site, and a retired public school teacher. She was born in an Eastern Kentucky coal camp and lived in several different coal camps until she was eight years old. Those coal camps are the background of many of her childhood stories. She is a proud mother of four sons and grandmother of four grandchildren. She lives in Lexington with her Miniature Schnauzer, Edgar.
Theme song "Appalachian Lofi" composed and performed by Bryan Klausing and Christine Cole.
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