Nana Biography

And religiously, what were they? 

Episcopalians, naturally, although they only went on Easter, maybe once during the year. And they sent me to Sunday school, because it was the thing to do, and I didn’t really believe in praying.  I’m not an atheist, I don’t think. Totally. I guess maybe almost.

So any traditions that might have grown up in your family I guess must’ve been southern traditions?

No, it was split, you know. Some from the east on my mother side, and some from my stepfather. I really didn’t align myself with the Harbison after I grew up. While I was a child there, I was awful. I always used to call myself Nancy Dyer, because my maiden name was Nancy Dyer Harbison.  I would say, although he never really adopted me. But I used to go around and say I was, because I wanted to be identified with this family. And that, but after I began to get older, I didn’t care about disassociating with them. I guess.

At one point, it might’ve be

But now, there isn’t anybody left. When my uncle Clint dies, that’s the end of it, the basic family, and that’s the only other child. So my brother is really the only Harbison. He’s Shelby Harbison the third, and he lives in Springfield, he doesn’t live in Kentucky.

He lives in Springfield now?

Yes. I don’t know why, but he does.

That’s a kind of a grim place, isn’t it?

Yes. I think it is.

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