Category 1
The Author
Who is Don Tate?
How old was Bill Traylor when he started drawing?
81 years old
What year was Bill Traylor Born?
1854
Where did Bill Traylors family chose to stay? and what did they work as?
On the Traylor farm as sharecroppers
What did they do on Sunday mornings?
Gathered along riverbank and listened to the preacher's message
The Illustrator
Who is R. Gregory Christie?
Is it Bill Taylor or Bill Traylor?
Bill Traylor
When Bill was old enough to do work, what did he do?
Pulling weeds, fetching water, gathering wood
WHat did the Northern Soilders do even after the war was over?
Burn farms, Villages, and towns
Bill was 81 in what year
1935
In what season did the story start
Summer
When did George Harwell Traylor and his wife own a cotton farm?
1850s
What did bill do after his chores?
Met his friends down by the bank of Alabama River
The name of Bill Traylors wife
Lorisa
Bill packed his bags and went where?
Nearest city of Montgomery
What Year did the story start
1939
Where was the cotton field?
Near Benton Alabama
What did him and his friends wave at
Steamboats
When money was scarce what did Bill Say?
"You could have that building over there full of money...but you couldnt eat it."
Who befriended Bill when he was homeless?
Owners of Ross-Clayton Funeral Home
In the beginning Bill Traylor was painting on what?
Back of discarded laundry soap box
How many slaves did the Traylors own?
More than 20
In what year did the Civil War end?
1865
What did men, women, children, and owls do on Saturday nights
Men - Danced to tone of a fiddle
Women - Sang up a storm
Children - ran back and forth snapping fingers to the sound of the music
Owls - Bobbed heads to the music