RC Reed grew up on a farm near Elbow, a tiny community a few miles from Big Spring. I asked him how it got that name. He replied, “Elbow Creek.” I asked him how Elbow Creek got its name. “Because it’s shaped like an elbow,” he said. He went to school in Elbow and considered it a boring waste of time.
The family lived in a modest home. “There wasn’t any insulation in that house and no indoor…