""A lot of the Adkins men were like that. People up and down all the hollers off Paint Creek had a good time gossiping and keeping up with his doin's. But he supported the local school from the revenues from the moonshine still he ran, he could be counted on to help a neighbor in need, and he gave his 10th to the church at the mouth of Grizzley holler. Besides all that, Aunt Clare was known to be a quarrelsome and difficult woman. Mawmaw was always kind to her in spite of her mean ways. Said she reckoned she'd be mean and bitter too if she had to live with the likes of Uncle James.