My name is Pat Quinn or actually Walter C. Quinn. But Pat’s my handle. I was born in New Jersey. My family lived in Madisonville, Tennessee in the hills. I was raised there in the hills with a family, my family. Born in 1936, and my mother was there when it happened. I was raised in a house with no screens on the windows, no insulation, no water in the house. I carried enough water that by the time I was 10 years old, my knuckles were dragging the ground from hauling so much water in buckets.
