![]() ![]() 'Tobacco Road has long since been paved with asphalt, and it's a good thing, too.'Ĭaldwell now lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his fourth wife. It's a Georgia that never existed in my day when education was a rare thing. ![]() 'There's been such a great change and that change was due to the advancement of education, improvements in the economy and social services. 'It was a very bleak future for people who were living there because of the poverty. 'There's been a great change in rural Georgia, the rural South from in my early days in the 1920s,' Caldwell said. 'Tobacco Road - there were several of them,' Caldwell said, 'but the one I remember in Richmond County was paved over a long time ago. ![]() Later, he drove a country doctor on his rounds, visiting the homes of ailing blacks and whites who later became such characters as Jeeter Lester in the novel 'Tobacco Road.' Caldwell said he came to know places like Fitzgerald and other communities in the rural South as a boy, traveling with his Presbyterian circuit preacher father. ![]()
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