I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.” — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.” — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever… — Doc Watson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
“Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do.… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag -… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have always been 'small town.' I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t describe the smells of West Virginia, even if I tried. It has something to do with the leaves composting in… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The state of New York had just one important advantage—an opening to the west through the Appalachian Mountains, the chain that runs… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Appalachian Regional Commission is a key funding tool for addressing the unique challenges facing our Appalachian region. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
“May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
“She stood, finally, her canvas Keds tied tight, on May 3, 1955, atop the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, the longest… — Ben Montgomery Copy Share Image
I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
“Walking the entire Appalachian Trail is not recreation. It is an education and a job. • Walking the entire Appalachian Trail is… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Then we left it behind and entered another world. Steep, densely forested slopes closed in around us, plunging us into shadow as… — Simon Beckett Copy Share Image
“A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea. Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
