Baby Nall with his Tricycle
Apparently from Baba, Nall’s interest in biology started as a young boy…
Nall and I grew up together on Murphree Street in Troy, Alabama. We lived six houses from each other. Even as a little boy, Nall was eccentric. He was cute and sweet and full of vim and vigor. I can still see him riding on his tricycle up and down the street. We all had the ‘Murphree Street Disease’. This meant we were all very eccentric. We couldn’t help it, and we reveled in it.
A sweet little spinster lady lived across the street from Nall—Miss Kylie Gardner—sweet as she could be. It wasn’t until years later when Nall told me that as a little boy he would go to her house and get a bucket and stand on it and watch this sweet little old lady get dressed! She was almost blind so she wouldn’t have ever known. I told Nall that was the worst thing I have ever heard. Sweet Miss Kylie Gardner and you’re trying to look at her naked! That was the kind of child he was.
From Baba Hendricks—Nall’s cousin
