Warren County is home to the highest poverty level in North Carolina.

Twenty- eight percent of their population lives below the poverty level.

Many of these families not only live in impovershed conditions, but lack

many everyday necessities like indoor plumbing and running water. Warren

County welfare institutions only provide minimal help.

 Lasker is a sleepy little town in North Carolina. Years

ago Calvin Daugherty gathered on a Friday nights with a few friends in

his backyard barn to harmonize, play the fiddle and have some homespun

fun. As word traveled the numbers grew. The Daugherty barn, now labled

the Lasker Grand Ole Opry, is home to over a hundred country music fans, 

mostly retired. 

 I met Henry Bragg on Christmas Eve. He was dressed in a Santa suit with a walker

in hand, ready to share his Christmas spirit for the last time. Although

Henry had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer for almost a year,

he had continued to live life to the fullest. But after his final outing on Christmas Eve, 

Henry's fighting spirit began to give into the cancer.

Laura Kleinhenz			 E-mail: lkleinhenz@aol.com 
 

Phone: 415-333-7133
  

Address: 31 Mizpah Street, San Francisco, CA 94131.

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