Dre and Vigs timeline

  • Farmer is born

    Farmer is born
    He was born in North Adams in 1959. His Mom, Ginny, was a farmers daughter, and his father that was a salesman.
  • Farmer moves to Alabama

    Farmer moves to Alabama
    Farmer moved to Alabama in 1966. While in Alabama his family bought a bus called the Bluebird. It used to be a mobile TB clinic.
  • Farmer Moves to Brooksville

    Farmer Moves to Brooksville
    Farmer moves toa small town north of Tampa near the Gulf Coast called Brooksville. He lived in a campsite
  • Farmer Meets the Haitians

    Farmer Meets the Haitians
    While picking citrus, Farmer its exposed to migrant Haitians. He learns about their country and poverty in Haiti. However, the pay was not enough for picking citrus, so his father went to work on a boat called Lady Gin.
  • Traveling on the Lady Gin

    Traveling on the Lady Gin
    Farmer and his father are traveling on the Lady Gin on a fishing trip. Warden does not listen to his son and runs aground. That was the last time they went fishing together. When they bought the Lady Gin, they were living on it.
  • Farmer Goes to College

    Farmer Goes to College
    Farmer gets a full scholarship to Duke. He meets rich people and it is a new atmosphere for him. He becomes preppy but his father tells him that he is the same person