The Education of Little Tree (1997)

Jeff Jeffcoat: Older Little Tree

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  Older Little Tree : [narrating]  It began at the Jericho Mine, Jericho City, Tennessee, in the year 1935, the day after Ma died. She'd lasted only a year after Pa was killed in the army. And that's how I came to live with Granma and Granpa when I was eight.

  Older Little Tree : One time, Granma told me that when you come on something good, first thing to do is stare it with whosoever you can find. That way, the good spreads out, we're no telling how far it'll go. Which is right. So I'm telling the story of them days, and how Granma and Granpa got me away from Aunt Martha, and took me to live in their mountains, where they'd raised my pa before me, and which I know now was the secret heart of the world.