When he was as a radio host in Iowa a decade ago, actor and double-leg amputee Ricky Bartlett told stories about his childhood in Columbus.
“I always treated the situation like we were sitting at the kitchen table having a cup of coffee in the mornings, one-on-one,” Bartlett, 54, told the Ledger-Enquirer.
One story he shared on air was about playing in the Chattahoochee River as a kid near his Bibb City home. It had just rained, so the riverbank was muddy. As he walked through the mud, Bartlett’s friends told him to stop moving, and he froze…