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U This is Our American Stories, and today we're talking. to Eric Motley. We've heard from Eric before about his life and a place called Madison Park. Madison Park was the first plantation to be bought by former slaves, and Eric told us that they came together and formed a community. a community that would eventually raise Eric.
Eric, in your book, you write, quote, I have often wondered if it's somehow in African Americans' bloodlines. be good storytellers and good talkers. because by law slaves weren't allowed to learn to read. I marvel all these years later how so many of the elderly people of Madison Park with no formal education used pitch, volume, pause, pace, Crescendo. even a whisper.
to make a joke or tell a story such as they did in little Joe's back yard. Eric. Who's Little Joe? Little Joe was the son of Big Joe. And Big Joe was really the first barber I ever knew.
And we would go to Big Joe, his name was Joseph Simon the Senior, We would go to his house, granddaddy would take me, and we would sit in his little crib. and I would have my hair cut. And of course he ended up dying. And little Joe ended up buying the house of misses Cheney Jackson that was several doors down from us. and on Sundays right before church, early on Sunday mornings before Sunday school, all the men of Madison Park would gather at Little Joe's house.
and they would sit on the front porch. and they would pass time away until they went to church. And my grandfather would grab me by the hand, and he would walk me through the field, under the old pear trees, through the grove, and he would take me over, and I would arrive. and I would sit and I would watch my grandfather get his hair cut, and I would hear all the town gossip. whose voice had broken and who could no longer sing in the church choir, All the family relation problems that people were having and who needed some extra money and how people had to organize themselves to support said person.
I heard everything, and then all of a sudden I would hear my name. And everyone, all the older men would call me the boy of George Motley. You're the boy of George Motley. There were times that I actually thought, Well, you know, I have my own name. And now in retrospect I realized that one of the great joys that I had arrived In my childhood, being associated with this incredible man that everyone knew by his full name as George Motley.
And Young man, get up in this chair. And I would climb up in the chair, and little Joe would put a cape around me, a barber's cloth. It was a sheet. or a towel from the house. and he would proceed cutting my hair, and he would say, 'How do you want your hair cut to day?
And of course, it was a question that was already the answer was already known because he had been cutting my hair for years and there was only one hairstyle that he knew how to give everyone in Madison Park. And so my grandfather would say, Oh, the same cut, Joe, And Joe would proceed. And I would hear all of these people pass the time away. I don't write about this, but My grandparents, of course, required me to give recitations at the dinner table. My grandfather would say a prayer, he would turn to me, and he would ask me.
If I would recite something, a poem by Robert Frost or some Something by Langston Hughes or And so every meal was uh Prelude it with a prayer and some recitation. It could have been the Declaration of Independence, but I mentioned that because always at little Joe's house when I got out of the chair.
some one would say Recite something for me, George Motley's boy. Mm.
Okay. and in that moment the spotlight would be on me and I would have to stand and I would have to recite something. And in our little church Union Chapel. There was only one Bible up on the altar, and it was the King James Bible. And the King James Bible was, as you know, so compacted with these and thou's and whether to's.
and we just had to learn the weather to's and the these and the thous. And I would always be asked to recite The 1 Corinthians 13. The people of Madison Park love, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I've become a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. And then someone would ask me, what is a tinkling symbol? And my grandfather would help me with all of my responses.
I think that much of our lives are um Glued together by the stories we learn at an early age. And the stories we tell. And if they're beautiful stories. and stories of hope, and stories of reconciliation and stories of forgiveness. We tend to carry those stories with us, and we tend to live into those stories, and they become our stories.
And those were the stories that I heard as a child in Madison Park. And there were stories that were told to me by ordinary people. who ended up being some of the most extraordinary people in my life. My grandfather's friends for sure, many of them, Had never gone off to technical school or even graduated for ninth grade. They were domestic in their professional lives.
They were plumbers and they had farms that they managed or They worked on construction sites. My grandfather started to alternate his friends to take me to the Montgomery Public Library, and on Saturdays, My grandfather took great pleasure driving me into the city of Montgomery. We were in city limits, but barely. And he would drive me to the Montgomery Public Library. Mind you, this was a library Yeah.
my grandfather never would have been able to go into. My mother. was not allowed to go into the Montgomery Public Library. Because of racial laws at the time. And so I was the first recipient.
Of this gift of being able to go through those bronze doors at the Montgomery Public Library, to ascend the stairs and to sit at the reading tables and to check out books. and one of the most beautiful memories Is my grandfather asking other friends of his to drive me? And they would drive me on Saturday morning, most of them never having even been to a library. And all of them just sitting out on the parking lot waiting on me, two, three hours of being in the library. and just having enormous satisfaction and pleasure in knowing that I was able to do something that they were not able to do.
or had not been able to do. And they would always ask me when I would come out and get back into the car. Tell me what you learned today. Tell me a story. And one of the greatest compliments was for me to hear.
Nebo Johnson. or mister Van. or mister Ray. Later tell that story to someone else. And we're listening to Eric Motley, author of Madison Park: A Place of Hope.
Go to Amazon and the usual suspects, buy this book. Share it with friends. It's a remarkable story, not just about a town. But, my goodness, a very special town. Madison Park was the first plantation to be bought by former slaves.
And Eric Well, he weaves intergenerational storytelling. of an African American community. and how it raised him. A community raised him. And by the way, what he said about storytelling is so beautiful, and we concur.
Here are now American stories with the power of story. I think, he said, that much of our lives are glued together By the stories we hear at an early age, and The stories we tell If their beautiful stories, stories of hope, Stories of reconciliation. and stories of forgiveness. we tend to carry those stories with us. and we tend to live into those stories.
And I don't think there's been a greater truth. uttered on this show. Then what Eric just said. And that's why we do what we do every day here on Our American Stories. tell stories of hope, reconciliation and forgiveness.
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