A Legend of America’s Music, and God’s, Passes

SWARTZ CREEK MI (ANS) -- Wade Mainer died last week. He was 104 years old. Born when Theodore Roosevelt was president and only four years after the Wright Brothers first flew, he was already preparing to vote for the first time when sound came to movies, Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, and Babe Ruth hit 60 homers. He was only 22 when the first Great Depression fell... but things actually didn’t change much in the hard-scrapple hills of Buncombe County, North Carolina, where he was reared.


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