This week focuses on great notables who hail from the American Deep South this week.

Per wikitree.com I am:

21 degrees from Terry Bollea
21 degrees from Paul Bryant
20 degrees from Van Cliburn
20 degrees from William Faulkner
15 degrees from Myra Gaines
23 degrees from Zora Hurston
18 degrees from Eartha Kitt
16 degrees from Marie Glapion
19 degrees from Harper Lee
16 degrees from Francis Marion
20 degrees from Walker Percy
38 degrees from Muddy Waters

More info on them:

Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea, WWF/WWE wrestling champion, who passed away on July 24.
Paul "Bear" Bryant, one of the most famous college football coaches, having won several
conference titles. His final record was 232 wins and 46 losses in Alabama. Harvey "Van" Cliburn, Jr., who gained worldwide recognition in 1958, at the age of 23,
when he won the inaugural quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in
Moscow.
William Faulkner, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate known for works like "The
Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom."
Myra Gaines, American socialite and plaintiff in the longest-running lawsuit in the history
of the United States legal system at a time when women had no legal standing before
U.S. courts.

Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and cultural anthropologist, who was an award-winning
American author of the early 20th century.

Eartha Kitt, American singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, and songwriter
known for her highly distinctive singing style.

Marie "Voodoo Queen" Laveau, herbalist, midwife, and renowned Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo.

Harper Lee, novelist and author of "To Kill A Mockingbird."

Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion, US Revolutionary War hero

Walker Percy, American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics and
whose works include "The Moviegoer"

McKinley "Muddy" Waters, best known as the "father of modern Chicago blues" and was
a major inspiration for the rise of British blues in the 1960s.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers. I guess that
I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

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