From the Wilmington Morning Star (NC):

U.S. Sen. John Edwards and his parents returned to his boyhood home Sunday for a day of memories and reunions to celebrate the Democratic presidential hopeful's 50th birthday.

Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat who became a successful attorney before rising to the U.S. Senate, walked around the small mill home his father Wallace and mother Bobbie rented for $35 a month when they worked in the area's textile industry a half-century ago.