Winford Claiborne, A Preacher’s Preacher by Mike Johnson, mjohnson@richmondcc.org
Winford Claiborne became a close friend of mine in the skies over Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina in 1980. He was flying The New Dimension Quartet (a barber shop group) from dear ole’ FHC to a pair of singing performances—one in Bowling Green, KY and another in North Carolina—on the same day. It was over those Carolina mountains that one of our singers accidentally kicked open the luggage door in the small 5-seater plane. The wind dragged our performance hats right out of the plane. He related that story all over the country saying how funny it must have been for some farmer who found four of his cows wearing hats the next morning!