I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or…

“Until they became the British Empire’s greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter…

— James Webb

“The state of New York had just one important advantage—an opening to the west through the Appalachian Mountains, the chain that runs in rough…

— Bill Bryson

You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front…

— Dave Barry

“Then we left it behind and entered another world. Steep, densely forested slopes closed in around us, plunging us into shadow as the road…

— Simon Beckett

“Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of…

— Bill Bryson

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

— Greil Marcus

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that…

— Ashley Monroe

“Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found…

— Adriana Trigiani

“I couldn’t describe the smells of West Virginia, even if I tried. It has something to do with the leaves composting in the woods,…

— Heather Day Gilbert

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles…

— Doc Watson

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the…

— John Mackey

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of…

— Lee Smith

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of…

— Charles Frazier

If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…

— Bill Bryson