Babe Carter, a Life

It’s the Story
Babe Carter, his parents, and six brothers. Sadly, I don’t know which is him. He’d be one in the back with his crippled hand out of sight.
Babe Carter, his parents, and six brothers. Sadly, I don’t know which is him. He’d be one in the back with his crippled hand out of sight.

When I think of John “Babe” Carter, I like something that Ernest Hemingway wrote: “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” Babe Carter’s life ended, like all others, in 1927. And I’ll quote Paul Harvey in the same breath: “Here’s the rest of the story.”

Here are the dry statistics for Babe Carter. He was born…