• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

    William Christopher Handy: Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.
    William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”