From the Bottom (2008)

Ulysses Lee Gooch's parents were laborers on a large southern farm in the early 1920s, and it was the farmstead owner's family who named him. He later acquired the nickname, "Rip." Early on, Rip and his mother lived with a relative in an area next to the Mississippi River referred to as "the bottom." Rip's mother died when he was 4 years old. "Not only was I living in... Read all