{"id":11402,"date":"2022-11-21T08:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestofswla.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:20:53","slug":"harry-truman-methvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestofswla.com\/2022\/11\/21\/harry-truman-methvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Truman Methvin"},"content":{"rendered":"
Story By Pierre Fontenot<\/em><\/p>\n Main photo by Liz Anne Mueller.\u00a0Other images courtesy Vance Perkins\u00a0and Kara Clayton Bergeron.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI was in his first homeroom class.\u00a0 <\/span>Jacket from the 1940s, as country as you can get.\u00a0 <\/span>All I could think was that the other students would tear him up\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Harry Methvin grew up outhouse poor, in a family that lived now to now, in a little community called Hargrove Settlement, just north of DeQuincy.\u00a0 <\/span>Too many kids, too few beds, Harry spent many a night sleeping on a pallet on the floor.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned to never name a backyard chicken,\u201d he\u2019d say, \u201csooner or later, it\u2019d end up being dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n