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"When you die, you take the knowledge wit ya."

"When you die, you take the knowledge wit ya."
Ms. Sally McCloud, Sandhills region of North Carolina. 1997
"Buttongrass is good for colds. You make a tea wit it. My mother used to give us this during school. Wouldn't know it if I saw it, but my mother, you know, like when chil'ren be going to school, she use it for that. Of course, all mothers along in there, when i come along did it. Stay out the doctor's office too. Pills cost so much today!"
Mr. Red in front of his house honoring a plant he uses as medicine, 1998. Paradise Settlement, Laurel Hill, NC


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