![]() Young Ronnie and his grandparents form a close attachment with one another, but his guardians soon express concern that the child (with partial vision in his left eye and none in his right) may never achieve independence in a bleak rural environment unless he somehow were to receive a quality education. His mother, having lost an infant during childbirth, realizes her new baby's sight-impaired birth defect, and abandons Ronnie by the age of one, with his grandparents, in their humble dwelling, containing no running water, no electricity, no telephone nor automobile in their possession. ![]() Russell Buchanan narrates this account of the life and career of Ronnie Lee Milsap, who is born into extreme poverty during the winter of 1943, in the Great Smoky Mountains' community of Robbinsville, North Carolina (near the Tennessee border). "Biography" Ronnie Milsap: Almost Like a Song (2000) would serve as the title of this episode and year of its release.
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