EDITOR’S NOTE: Rickey Beene, a self-taught painter who focused his art on the people of his hometown of Petros, Tennessee, died last week. He was 66. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. In 2013 Dale Mackey and Shawn Poynter produced this profile of Rickey and his efforts to document the people of Petros. We’re […]
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