Leavings: Honeycutt to Cooper Ridge

It's not just the people and places we leave behind as we journey through life, it's more likely the parts of ourselves we leave behind that truly define who we become. Claude Cooper has traveled far in life, physically and emotionally, leaving along the way the trappings of poverty, the arrogance of youth, love lost, and prideful ambition - as well as a need for his own father to guide him. In doing so, he became a man - a man who, above all, created a bedrock foundation for a family that has needed it most.