Some summers my father would take us down to visit our...

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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones 1933, american musician

Also called: Quincy Delightt Jones Jr..
Life period: 1933
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