Percy Marshall

Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson

Since he was a child, Percy Marshall has lived in northern Alabama, eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and longest of all, Cincinnati, where he moved in 1942. But he still thinks of the little town of Blanche, Tennessee, where he was born more than eighty years ago, as home.  

"I think of home, Tennessee is my home. I think of that still being home. But when you get a job in another place you go there, maybe make a good living there and buy a house. But if I had to choose a place to go, I could go back down home, oh yeah. I could live there comfortable." 

Perceptions of Home: The Urban Appalachian Spirit ©1996 The Urban Appalachian Council (now Urban Appalachian Community Coalition)

Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson; Interviews ©1996 Don Corathers

Photographs digitized by the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. Genealogy & Local History Department.