Lorraine Pettway – (William Sidney Arnett) Previous Next


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Date: 2000

Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Technique: Photograph

I was born down here in the Bend; lived right over there down the road from where Bettie Bendolph Seltzer live now, right next door to where Candis [Pettway] was. My mother is Jeanette Mosely. My grandmother was Virginia Mosely.When I was a little girl, we played a lot, stuff like baseball and hide-and-go-seek. Had to make the cows and pigs and goats move out of the way to play baseball. When the sun got too hot, we come under the shade tree and played hopscotch and jacks.My husband is Bobby Pettway. We been married about twenty-nine years and we have five children. I been knowing Bobby all my life. I used to always be glad to see Bobby Pettway coming. Used to come every evening and sit and talk till sundown, then he go on home. We went together at least five years before we got married. I used to sit with Bobby

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